When my husband and I were planning our wedding, we (okay, I) opted to take out the line “to obey” from our wedding vows. I had this image in my head...

Have you ever taken a trip where you weren’t quite sure of the destination? Or started a project and you weren’t sure how it was going to end? It is hard...

At the end of Matthew 10, we find Jesus’ instructions to his disciples as he sends them out as emissaries. For their mission they are armed with supernatural powers over unclean...

Even as I cull out theological gems from today’s scripture, I will candidly share that the use of the term enslaved is off-putting for me and my people. It reminds us...

I love the hymns of the church. I think what I love most is that the melody is readily identifiable as the top note in the chord structure. Perhaps what makes...

The earlier verses of Psalm 13 are both a prayer of complaint on the part of the psalmist as well as a prayer pleading for deliverance. But the prayer is formed...

Stone soup, anyone? Perhaps some of us will remember this children’s fable. A hungry traveler comes to a village seeking a meal but is denied. He then sets up in the...

But what about Isaac? What do we know and learn of him in this scripture? It has been suggested that Isaac was a young man, certainly old enough to extract himself...

We begin this week of devotions deep down in the depths of despair—of Abraham’s and of our own—as we read of the patriarch being called by God to sacrifice his son...