the waiting country

None of us knows what will happen next. All we can say is that it looks like life won't be the same again, whatever that might mean. And...

The Christian life, from one angle, is the long journey of letting our natural assumption about who God is, over many decades, fall away, b...

"Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed......

"I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear..." (John 16:12) We have many questions and, often, so few answers. ...

Paul and the Trinity: Persons, Relations, and the Pauline Letters - Wesley Hill Paul, Apostle of Liberty - Richard Longenecker When th...

Do not weep (Revelation 5) From within his isolation and exile on Patmos, John tells us, "I wept and wept." But these were not ...

"Cain reaches for a kind of substitute for eternity by fathering a son and attempting to create a lineage. He initiates a city in his s...

This is from a chapter reflecting on Calvin's work in A Pastoral Rule for Today : The Company of Pastors embodied three practices desi...

The voice of the risen Lord (Revelation 1) As the book of Revelation opens, the apostle John, the beloved disciple of Jesus, is in exile o...

The word that sustains the weary (Isaiah 50) As you wake on this Good Friday morning you may feel weary. Many of us are at the moment - p...

Men and women of faith who pray—that is, who come to a certain assigned place, at definite times, and are not abashed to go down on their kn...

Troubled hearts need comfort. Lives that have been engulfed by the storms of sorrow need healing and hope. John 14:1-3 is a large serving of...

No prayer of Jesus could ever go unanswered, could it? He always intercedes for his loved ones, always prays with wisdom and insight, always...

​'My life' is a quintessential Iris DeMent song - bittersweet and sung with pathos and a lyrical purity. It laments the brevity of ...

Moses saw a bush ablaze, yet not consumed. The ground where he stood was holy, because the living God was present in his burning majesty. A...

This time of crisis will pass. Our lives will return to some kind of normality (no doubt changed and chastened in a variety of ways). There ...

I have reached the point in my life when I can see what has mattered, what has become a part of its substance—I might say a part of my subst...

In the cool of the day, the LORD God walked in the garden. Instead of running to welcome him, to worship him, the man and his wife hid among...

"He will bear the names of the sons of Israel over his heart" (Exodus 28:29) Are you suffering from an unquiet heart? As soo...

Something I wrote for church members this week ******** I'd like to try to write something, perhaps a couple of times a week, to enc...