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Falling forty days after Easter, Ascension Day has never held that important a place in the church calendar.1 Its place in Christian tradition, however, has been securely fixed by its prominent role in Christian creeds (...)

Most of you preachers out there already know this, but it never hurts to be reminded of a perhaps well-known fact because maybe this time around it will mean and preach something different. In this (...)

Falling forty days after Easter, Ascension Day has never held that important a place in the Church Calendar. Its place in Christian tradition, however, has been securely fixed by its prominent role in Christian creeds (...)

John 16:12-15 begins with Jesus telling his disciples, “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now” (v. 12). What Jesus says here seems to contradict what he had (...)

Thomas Merton once stated “Praise is cheap,” and it seems as though these words remain true today.1 We give homage to so many things that our praise is cheap. Is it also accurate to say (...)

This scene of feeding five-thousand-plus will be followed in 15:32-39 with the feeding of four thousand people. Three reading contexts help to identify the significance of Jesus’ actions involving abundant food. First is the recognition (...)

The scriptures often describe people and things in absolute terms, with a rhetorical flair I advise my students to avoid. I tell them that critical thinking requires us to seek precision in our language and (...)

It is among the masses in Galilee that Jesus commences his healing and teaching ministry. Jesus’ popularity as a man who can heal whatever ails a person spreads beyond the Galilean borders. Jesus’ newly acquired (...)

Wherever you live right now, it is probably Egypt in some way or another. In other words, there is a better land, a better world that could be established were you not stuck in Egypt. (...)

It is perhaps a conventional American aspiration to be debt-free in every way, because it marks autonomy and self-sufficiency. A measure of self-respect may come from living according to the twin principles, “owe nothing to (...)