How many times do we forget to “call upon the Lord”? Seeking after God is not an easy task for contemporary Christians, especially when there are so many distractions. What would...

This week’s reading starts with a feeling of the Creator’s agitation and the image of creation being dismantled. The disappointment with human beings and our unfaithfulness reaches the point of an...

Today we return to Luke 14, where Jesus counsels his followers to give up their idolatries if they would be his disciples. Now we note the hardest part of this call:...

In this familiar story, Paul sends Onesimus, who is probably an enslaved man who has run away, back to his master, Philemon. Paul appeals to Philemon not to enslave Onesimus but...

Jeremiah sees God at work in our lives and invites us to respond. God’s presence draws us into deep communion with God and the loving purposes that infuse all of creation....

In this striking analogy, Jeremiah pictures God as the potter, fashioning vessels out of clay. This would be a very familiar image to Jeremiah’s readers. The clay in this imagery represents...

The psalmist continues to express, in the most intimate terms, how totally God knows us and has formed us. These words do not compel us to conclude that God literally made...

We pause over the deep implication of this psalm: God is present all the time and everywhere. The psalmist expresses that implication in personal terms: God knows everything about us. On...

Today’s reading is one of the most troubling passages in the whole Bible. Is Jesus calling upon us to abandon our families? Those who are nearest and dearest to us? The...

A year or two ago, I cut sugar from my diet in an effort to decrease arthritis inflammation. Eager to experiment and find a sugar substitute, I delighted in finding I...