The Beatitudes are a prophetic utterance. They claim and proclaim God’s favor in places and for people for whom it is not yet apparent. They point the disciples and us to...

Jesus goes up the mountain to teach. The writer of Matthew’s Gospel addresses a Jewish audience for whom Moses’ teaching from Mount Sinai loomed large in both geography and self-understanding. Commentators...

We often hear it said that “seeing is believing,” but “believing is seeing” can also be true. Our expectations and beliefs shape what we see or perceive. Paul notes that the...

Many people speak, blog, and tweet about their spiritual practice. They may hail movement or stillness, meditations or mantras, knowing your own heart or serving others as practices to help us...

After hearing God’s brief against the people in verses 1-5, in this passage we hear Micah’s own words. The prophet seems to repeat a list of questions posed to him. Can...

In these verses that lead up to one of the most oft-cited passages from Micah, the prophet lets the people of Israel know that God is lodging a complaint against them....

The scripture texts assigned for this week seem to contain a lot of lists. Some describe what is good, and some note what is not good. If you are a list...

This joyful pronouncement promises a time to come when all will rejoice before God, when oppression and war will end, when the anguish of darkness shall cease. God has promised us...

What drives us to split into groups, to drive others away because of differences real or imagined? Why do we wall ourselves off to other points of view except that of...

Light has come into the darkness. Hope has come into hopelessness. Healing has come to sickness—all through Jesus Christ. Jesus calls Simon and Andrew, James and John in this moment, but...