Search Results

Last Christmas my son, a school principal in Miami, announced that when the apocalypse came, he and his family would seek refuge in Indiana with us, where we have water, gardens, solar power, and relative (...)

Haddon Robinson is co-director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Gordon-Conwell Seminary.  He writes regularly for Our Daily Bread, a daily devotional, and has authored six books: “Psalm 23,” “Grief,” “Biblical Preaching,” “Biblical Sermons,” (...)

What if the center cannot hold, as William Butler Yeats feared in his famous poem, “The Second Coming”? Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide (...)

“One flock, one shepherd . . .” On the walk back from the now empty tomb and her encounter in the garden with the risen Christ, we can only imagine the jumble of thoughts, images, (...)

The passage begins with an insistent double imperative: Comfort! Comfort! The intimacy and compassion that are to infuse this comfort are underscored in the parallel command: Speak tenderly! (literally:”speak to the heart”). This poignant command (...)

The Times They Are A-Changin’ These days at the end of November are a season of changing times. The elections are over and newly elected officials prepare to take their positions. The Pentecost season comes (...)

Feasts, festivals, banquets, and wedding suppers abound in the Bible, and with good reason: meal fellowship represents community of the closest kind, especially perhaps in tribal cultures (then and now); and feasts give rise to (...)

In one of those sermons that bring the biblical world “down to earth,” the preacher talked about his life in Africa. He told us how the people of a village knew each other’s sheep the (...)

National tragedies threaten to render communities speechless. The collective grief can be overwhelming. In response, people often gather to sing songs, pray, light candles, and mourn together. Poetry and songs, in the context of ritual, (...)

This text is part of Jeremiah’s Book of Consolation, often identified with chapters 30-31, but probably including chapters 32-33. The larger scope of the Book is likely in view of the bracketing references to the (...)