Faith, Fiction, Friends

After 1 Samuel 17:26-49   What did the boy know, what did the boy think, as he approached the giant, the giant hurling insults and taunts? D...

After 1 Samuel 17:26-49   It’s never about us, this life we live, this world we inhabit; it never is. And it never was about us. A drama unf...

After 1 Samuel 17:26-49   The small things of this world are sometimes the most powerful things of this world. Like using a small, smooth st...

After I Samuel 16:1-13   It wasn’t any of the men whom the Lord chose, the men so imposing  and handsome, conforming to human expectations o...

After I Samuel 16:1-13   One by one they file by, the seven sons, each pleasing in their own way, especially in their appearance. And one by...

After I Samuel 16:1-13   The chose one has lost his authority. The prophet sees the sin, understands the reason, but grieves the loss, the k...

After I Samuel 16:1-13   From the first moment of the anointment, the king is blessed, set apart to lead and to rule. It doesn’t happen imme...

After I Samuel 16:1-13   The choice is made, the anointed is chosen, and one by one the sons pass by. This one, surely, he thinks. Of course...

After I Samuel 16:1-13   It seems that all is well, a surface of calm and continuity. But all is changed; the light has passed from one to a...

After Luke 7:24-50   In the crowd, curious, she hears him speak, his words cutting into her heart, burning like hot coals, and she stumbles ...

After Luke 7:36-50   The woman weeps and anoints his feet; the man, the host, a man known to follow the law, likely congratulates himself fo...

After Luke 7:36-50 A sinful woman of the city, a euphemism for prostitution, weeps and anoints his feet with oil. The host, a man of some me...

Recently at our church’s worship service, a couple told the story of their little boy. When he was 8 ½ months old, he began to throw up an...

A day of stillness, and calm. The sweet, pervasive smell signals the expense; the alabaster jar confirms it. She pours, lightly,...