Week 7 (Year 1, NL)

The psalms are poignant. They bear emotion in a way that grabs our souls. They are comprehended by the heart in a way the head can’t.

But I falter when I try to preach them.

David stares at us out of a mirror and shows us our capacity for sinning.

Snow can be tiresome, even deadly, but it can also be a sign of holiness and of hope.

Psalm 51 does not let any of us off the hook—not the progressives, the evangelicals, or the feel-good agnostics.

We need to repent of offering the world our charitable leftovers and then pouting when the world doesn’t say thank you.

The first Sunday of October is World Communion Sunday. Christians around the world remember that we are linked with brothers and sisters of all colors and languages. There is no better time to remind ourselves of this truth than in these days, when so much of the world is divided into a multitude of warring camps.

Ash Wednesday begins the Lenten journey to Jerusalem. It is best not to journey alone.

Jesus offers a stick in his listeners' eye.

How does the way God regenerates us resemble and differ from the way we regenerate ourselves?