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Behold! A psalm that oozes with hopefulness even in the face of perceived impossibilities.1 The unity this psalm calls for is between Democrats and Republicans. Impossible? It is between Christians and Muslims. Impossible? It is (...)

Psalm 4 is good for what ails you.1 People are troubled about many things, but God ‘puts gladness in our hearts.’ Psalm 4 makes a good preaching text any time of year because it offers (...)

In Luke’s resurrection account, women go to the tomb on Sunday morning. The stone is rolled back, and two men in dazzling clothes announce that Jesus was raised. The women return and report the news (...)

Many of us can only hear the first line of the Psalm in the King James Version (KJV): “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.1 With a simple metaphor in a concise and (...)

The book of Acts begins by reminding its reader, Theophilus, of an earlier book — the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:1-4), placing the reader in the midst of an extended story with Jesus at the (...)

Luke has connected Acts with his Gospel or his first book (proton), both of which are addressed to Theophilus (Luke 1:1-4; Acts 1:1).1 Perhaps Theophilus (a combination of the Greek noun theos, translated “God,” and (...)

Have you noticed that Luke is the only evangelist to record the Ascension? In Matthew 28:16-20 the ascension is presupposed, as it is also in John 21:22, when Jesus says: “If it is my will (...)

Ni Escape, Ni Identificación. En el Mundo, pero No del Mundo La escena de despedida (Jn 13-17) se cierra con una oración de Jesús. La actitud del/a lector/a debiera ser, llegado a este punto, la (...)

After a fast-moving thunderstorm passed through our city, we woke up to a world without electricity. The house was dark. I tried a switch; no power. I checked to see if it was simply a (...)

Jesus generates a lot of worry in this passage. But I suppose he always has. Because it’s only Mark 3, and because we’re considering this text during the bliss of early June, we might fail (...)