After reaching the Mount of Olives on their way to Jerusalem, Jesus instructs two disciples to get a colt and a donkey from a nearby village. They do as they are...

Praise and thanksgiving continue in these latter verses of Psalm 118, and once again we are called on to express our appreciation for God’s steadfast love and abiding protection. Many of...

The Psalms—a collection of prayers and hymns from throughout Israel’s history—offer a variety of emotions, from sorrow to joy, despair to gratitude. Many of us turn to this book of the...

I keep waiting for God to do things my way. That’s preposterous and I laugh aloud at the audacity of such a confession, but it’s truer than I prefer to admit....

It’s hard to believe that Jesus chooses to let someone die. Of course, it’s hard to believe that Jesus raises someone from the dead too. But first it’s hard to believe...

Writing to the church in Rome, the apostle Paul echoes the poetic truth from Psalm 130: “We cannot live by our own strength. We cannot save ourselves—who could stand if we...

The psalmist reminds me of the prophet Habakkuk, who stands at his watchpost and declares, “I will watch to see what [God] will say” (2:1). Not, “I will listen to hear...

In moments of hubris and daydream, I long to create a solution to the weights and strains and sins of the world, or at least a reasonable fix to the weights...

Change, whether joyful or painful or even mundane, compels us to assess what has been in the past as we make our way toward the future. Sometimes the hardest part of...

The situation in Ezekiel 37 seems extreme; yet many of us have experienced, witnessed, and survived such utter devastation. We have witnessed the complete disruption of life, the dismantling of everything...