Isaiah 14:1-23 What are your favorite songs to hear or sing during the Advent or Christmas season? No doubt many of us love the sound of...

Isaiah 2 Down in the valley of the shadow of death, sorrow reigns. Nation rises against nation. Brother wars against brother. The rich...

Isaiah 1:1-28 “The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know. My people do not understand.” So says...

Revelation 19 In the book of Psalms, occasionally you find these clusters of psalms that all begin with the word Hallelujah. Hallelujah...

Daniel 2:1-23 There’s a kind of genius to Nebuchadnezzar’s madness here in Daniel 2, or perhaps there’s a kind of madness to his genius....

Matthew 28 Sometimes in your life, you encounter a rather strange kind of unbelief in people. It’s not the unbelief of ignorance, where...

Matthew 27:11-32 When Pilate realizes he’s not able to reason with the Chief Priests and that they’re going to riot if he doesn’t hand...

Matthew 27:1-10 There’s a certain strategy that Satan likes to employ to destroy our faith, a strategy I suppose we could call “corrupt...

Jeremiah 30; Matthew 26:57-75 “And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off...

Matthew 26:20-35 Throughout my years as a pastor, a few people who are outside of our communion have gotten angry when I’ve told them...

Jeremiah 23 As the prophet Jeremiah shows us, you don’t get rebirth without death. You don’t getmbalm without a wound. You don’t get...

Jeremiah 22:1-23 As my children can tell you, my greatest fear in life is not getting a terrible disease or dying alone or anything like...

Matthew 24:29-51 Many have read this passage from Matthew and fixated on unknowability of Christ’s return. “No man knows the day or the...

Matthew 24:1-28 In our reading from Matthew 24 today, Jesus is preparing His first century followers for the destruction of Jerusalem...

Matthew 23:13-39 When I was a middle school student learning about slavery, one of the conclusions my fellow students and I drew was that...

All Saints Day Revelation 7: 2-17 Ever since the fall into sin, God’s people have had cause to weep. Abraham wept over his wife Sarah as...

Matthew 20:1-16 When Adam fell into sin, his curse was that he would now have to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. God created him...

Matthew 18:21-35 There’s an important detail in the parable of the unmerciful servant that helps us understand the point Christ is...

Matthew 18:1-20 Hyperbole is a literary device where you seek to make a point by overstating your case. It’s something we do all the...

Matthew 13:54-58 What a strange thing it must have been for St. James, to have the Savior of the world as his brother. The man he grew up...