As I read this psalm, I kept coming back to verse 10: “The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.” This might...

Interestingly, neither the bleeding woman nor the religious leader in this passage are described as followers of Christ. In other Gospels, the leader is named Jairus, a Jewish leader, who would...

God not only calls Abraham to enter the unknown, but God also makes a promise that seems impossible to fulfill. Abraham becoming a father seems, in every sense of the word,...

Stepping into the unknown requires a great deal of faith; just ask Abraham! He is an elderly man with a barren wife, and God is asking him to leave his extended...

This is perhaps the simplest passage of them all, yet in practice it might be the most complex. What does it look like to follow God? Scripture offers us some answers,...

The disciples worshiped, but they doubted. Doubted what? Jesus was standing right before them, talking to them! What was there to doubt? Maybe Matthew doesn’t mean that they doubted whether Jesus...

This is a surprising inclusion into the story. Matthew tells us that, when the disciples encountered the risen Christ in what would be the last time they saw him, doubt was...

As a United Methodist pastor, I have been called to move a few times, leaving one faith community and moving to another. Leaving is hard. After years of walking alongside a...

God is big. God is powerful. God can do things we cannot. That can bring us comfort, knowing that God is able to do far more than we can imagine. But...

I spent the first half of my vocational life in music—initially as a music teacher, but mostly as a music minister. Because I spent so much time immersed in the music...