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Preparation for a major event is key! Without preparation, we may not receive the full benefits of what is coming. How much more fulfilling if one is prepared, allowing the excitement to build, and preparing (...)

How can you tell if someone is a Jesus-follower? It’s not that easy to spot, especially at a glance. After a few minutes of conversation, however, you can usually tell; their speech gives them away. (...)

Of all the lections assigned to me by WorkingPreacher.org, this, by far, is the hardest. After three false starts, all scrapped, I’m tempted to concede defeat. I can’t, because you, dear preachers, haven’t that luxury. (...)

“Behold, your salvation comes.” (Isaiah 62.11) Christmas Day is the prefect context to explore the proclamation of the mystery of the incarnation within the rich language of Isaiah, considered by many in the early church (...)

The Christmas season always seems like a time to sing the good old songs.1 Each year I have sung the carols and even played them on a trombone alongside a Salvation Army bell ringer in (...)

Christmas is the Festival of the Incarnation. It celebrates the birth of the baby Jesus. The second lesson for today reminds us, however — as does the Gospel text — that the nativity is set (...)

“How can you tell a true prophet from a false prophet?” Spending my sabbatical year teaching at the Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, I encountered questions that I’ve never encountered in an American (...)

This passage continues the one assigned for last week. As soon as Jesus and his few followers leave the Capernaum synagogue, they enter Simon’s house. There they encounter Simon’s mother-in-law, who lies ill with a (...)

What will it take for us to see — really see? What will it take for us to see Jesus for whom he really is? What will it take for us to see God? And (...)

A prominent strand of Old Testament theology portrays the history of God’s people as cyclical — a cycle in which the people cry out for help, God saves them, but then they forget, go astray, (...)