prayer

Babel and Pentecost….Today!

Jesus had promised his disciples that the Holy Spirit would come, and so it did. Fifty days after Easter at the Jewish festival of […]

How can we pray in such times as these? It is not always easy. We are feeling so many things, including a sense of […]

Herod, Peter, Rhoda and the Church at PrayerActs 12:1-24 Here is one of the wildest chapters in the Bible. It’s like a short story […]

The choir has led us in praise, proclaimed praise—and helped us offer our own. The writer Andre Dubus has a character in a short story […]

If I were to select one passage in Paul’s writings that captures the secret of living, for me it would be these verses from Philippians. […]

A few weeks ago I preached a sermon from Luke 16 and its two parables about our relationship with wealth. Today’s text is from Luke […]

“Lord, teach us to pray”, his disciples asked, and he gave them and us the Lord’s Prayer. Early Christians prayed it three times a day. […]