There are two things everyone knows about Jonah. One is that God sent him to Nineveh to save the city. The other is that he got swallowed by a fish…
There are days… weeks… sometimes seasons of our lives when we feel like we have to hunt for Jesus, like he’s not where we need him to be when we…
Whenever an angel shows up in the Bible, the first thing the angel says is "be not afraid." Kinda makes you wonder if the angels are inherently frightening, doesn't it?…
In his travels with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Scrooge comes face-to face with his finitude. We all have fear about the unknowns in our futures, but we…
The Ghost of Christmas Present showed Ebenezer Scrooge the world around him, the pain and suffering, the bleakness that was embedded in the community in which Scrooge himself lived. Yet…
We all have regrets. We all have moments we’d love to do over. And we have pieces in our pasts we simply have forgotten. Plus some good stuff, right? They’re…
God’s economy is often not the same as the one we embrace, as evidenced in the life of Scrooge. But if Scrooge can be redeemed, so can we! How can…
We often sing of Jesus as our King, and we call him our Lord. But those two words don’t hold much emotional attachment in our democratic world. What does it…
As Christians we are called to the work of neighbor-love. We are invited to delight in serving one another in the name of Jesus: caring for the lost, the last,…
Patience ain’t easy. Sometimes we are so looking forward to something, or maybe even just so looking FOR something, that our ability to wait is compromised. We just can’t do…