2 Samuel 7:1-17 Something we see a number of times in the Bible is that God is never going to let you win a gift-giving contest. If you...

Galatians 4:4-7 “Well-behaved women rarely make history.” That’s a saying I heard every now and then growing up. And the point was rather...

1 Corinthians 7:25-40 When I was a student at Indiana University, I took a few religious studies courses where I learned very little...

2 Samuel 6: 1-19 God’s judgement upon Uzzah the priest strikes our modern sensibilities as arbitrary and severe. Perhaps it even seems a...

1 Corinthians 5 Since Roe vs. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court, voters have chosen to expand the reach of legal abortion every...

1 Corinthians 4 Every October is pastoral appreciation month, at least that’s what the internet tells me. And during that month, many...

1 Corinthians 3 There’s a common phenomenon in churches, generally of the Evangelical variety, where a pastor will build up a massive...

1 Corinthians 1:26-2:16 When the Christian faith began to spread into the gentile world, it was not held in great esteem amongst the...

1 Corinthians 1:1-25 If you want to understand what Paul’s various epistles are all about, a helpful trick is to look at the very first...

1 Samuel 4 In a strange way, Eli’s rather humiliating death seems to prove that he dies as a believer. He doesn’t want God’s word of...

1 Samuel 3 When Eli hears the first words God gave to Samuel, his response just may be the saddest thing spoken in all the Bible. After...

1 Samuel 2:18-36 Why does Eli put up with the evil of his sons? When the high priest sees that his sons are using the temple to serve...

1 Samuel 1:21-2:17 In the Beatitudes, Jesus tells us it’s those who are poor in spirit, not the rich, who will inherit the kingdom of...

1 Samuel 1:1-20 In our reading from 1 Samuel this morning, Hannah is looking for comfort and struggling to find it. Hannah is grieved to...

Judges 14 When Samson takes a Philistine wife, he doesn’t outwardly break the law of Moses, but he does break the spirit. While the...

Galatians 2 The closing verses of Galatians chapter 2 that we just read a moment ago are often described as the thesis statement of...

Galatians 1 Usually, Paul likes to begin his letters with some note of praise or thanksgiving to God for the saints that he’s writing to....

Judges 6:25-40; Acts 15:6-21 One thing that we see in both our readings for this morning is that when God starts working to redeem his...

Acts 14: 19-23 It’s quite the ordeal that Paul goes through on his first visit to the city of Lystra. First, the mission to the Gentiles...

Judges 2:6-23 “A little leaven leavens the whole lump.” In a way, the book of Judges is an intense historical manifestation of this...