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...

The first time someone told me that there was not one Creation story in Genesis but two, I was incredulous. How could that be? The Bible is the story of God...

When God began to create the heavens and the earth, the earth was complete chaos. God began to move, bringing order to the chaos, life out of nothingness, light out of...

Today’s passage takes us to the Feast of Tabernacles, the traditional time when the Jews erected temporary shelters of branches and palm leaves. The idea was to live inside these makeshift...

Like I once did, many believers tend to think that our spiritual gifts are about us. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. A cursory reading of today’s passage should...

I work for a nonprofit and most of the time we work well together when setting goals. But on occasion each of us has a different vision for or opinion about...

Yesterday’s reading demonstrated a believer’s response to contemplating and delighting in God’s creation. Yet the psalmist acknowledges those who scorn God and refuse to acknowledge God as Creator. They refuse to...

I can get lost in the poetic rhythm of this psalm. The psalmist is extolling God’s creation with beautiful word pictures. I can readily imagine the mythical beast Leviathan—elsewhere in scripture...

While the majority of those who heard the apostles’ miraculous proclamations at Pentecost were amazed, some were skeptical and mocked the apostles. “They have had too much wine,” they claimed dismissively....

Now that Jesus had ascended into heaven, we see that God is doing something different. That something new was the inauguration of the church, of which Peter was to be the...