This is perhaps the simplest passage of them all, yet in practice it might be the most complex. What does it look like to follow God? Scripture offers us some answers,...

The disciples worshiped, but they doubted. Doubted what? Jesus was standing right before them, talking to them! What was there to doubt? Maybe Matthew doesn’t mean that they doubted whether Jesus...

This is a surprising inclusion into the story. Matthew tells us that, when the disciples encountered the risen Christ in what would be the last time they saw him, doubt was...

As a United Methodist pastor, I have been called to move a few times, leaving one faith community and moving to another. Leaving is hard. After years of walking alongside a...

God is big. God is powerful. God can do things we cannot. That can bring us comfort, knowing that God is able to do far more than we can imagine. But...

I spent the first half of my vocational life in music—initially as a music teacher, but mostly as a music minister. Because I spent so much time immersed in the music...

The first time someone told me that there was not one Creation story in Genesis but two, I was incredulous. How could that be? The Bible is the story of God...

When God began to create the heavens and the earth, the earth was complete chaos. God began to move, bringing order to the chaos, life out of nothingness, light out of...

Today’s passage takes us to the Feast of Tabernacles, the traditional time when the Jews erected temporary shelters of branches and palm leaves. The idea was to live inside these makeshift...

Like I once did, many believers tend to think that our spiritual gifts are about us. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. A cursory reading of today’s passage should...