The day’s work had ended at a church conference on urban ministry, and a group of us were seated around a hotel room reviewing the day. Suddenly, one of the clergy...

Three teenaged buddies and I were on a camping trip when we discovered a watermelon patch on a farm on the other side of a barbed-wire fence. The watermelon patch was...

God provides Moses with instructions for guiding the people of Israel. The law and commandments invite the freed children of former slaves into life with God. God is building a new...

Peter affirms that his message came from his personal experience with Jesus Christ. His energy and enthusiasm almost leap from the printed page. What about your story? What have you come...

At first, Psalm 2 throws you headfirst into conflict, with nations competing for power, conspiring and plotting in vain, pushing and jockeying for position. It can all too easily be read...

Jesus invites his inner circle to come up the high mountain to experience an exalted state of consciousness, a higher state of spiritual reality. As Jesus is transfigured before their eyes,...

What happens while we pray? Would that we, like Jesus, could experience the power of being transfigured! How often we approach prayer scowling, smirking, or rolling our eyes from a day...

Even though Jesus just miraculously fed 4,000 people, not counting women and children—with leftovers to prove it—the Pharisees still seek a sign (see Matthew 15:32–16:4). Jesus declares that no sign shall...

Yahweh invites Moses to come up higher where he will receive instructions to guide the children of Israel. Moses reminds us all of the necessity of obedience. God called only him,...

To close a week of reflection on the law—the Hebrew law, an ode to it in the Psalms, and Jesus’ radical ethic—we hear a final word of grace from Paul, who...