In the burning-bush encounter with Moses, God says, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed,...

Moses’ ordinary life as a shepherd is interrupted and upended when he spies “a flame of fire out of a bush” that “was blazing, yet it was not consumed.” As most...

My childhood family vacations alternated between driving 1,600 miles east to visit my paternal grandmother one summer, then 1,200 miles north to see my maternal grandmother the following summer. I loved...

Psalm 124 is part of a group of psalms that are songs of ascent, or praise songs used by ancient Jewish worshipers traveling to Jerusalem for various feasts. The following could...

Within the kingdom of priests that is the church, every Christian is a mirror of grace. We each are the very image of God mediating Christ: first to one another, then...

In Romans 12 Paul is taking a breath. He has written to inform the Christian Jews and other Christians in Rome of the glorious mercies of God (chapters 1–11), and now...

To be strictly silent about Christ is not very evangelistic. Why, then, does Jesus instruct his disciples to keep quiet regarding his identity? The disciples will eventually be Christ’s witnesses to...

Just a little ways north of Galilee lies a cultural and religious crossroads. There the waters from Mount Hermon spring so gloriously from a cliff into a moist, lush valley below...

Brother Ron was a big man—and hugely wise. He once told me about his experience of leading weekly worship services. As he stood before the congregation with arms outstretched, he imagined...

One who mediates between the Divine and the human is called a priest; in Christendom the title refers to a ranking official who participates in rites of worship. This week, however,...