Look at the bookending verses of Psalm 4: Answer me when I call, O God of my right! You gave me room when I was in distress. Be gracious to ...

Every marketing website, consultant, handbook, and tip sheet will tell you: Know your own message. Know your own audience. You can't be ...

  The appointed time has grown short, Paul wrote to the Christians in Corinth (I Corinthians 7:29). One of the ways you can imagine this an...

Christ chose us, destined us, and adopted us, according to Ephesians 1:3-14. Chosen, not chance. In time, the writer of Ephesians goes on to...

Dotted Horses. Pech-Merle Cave . Cabrerets, France. c. 25,000 BCE.  (Notice how the prehistoric artists used the natural formation of the ro...

"Ask for a sign," Isaiah invites Ahaz. But Ahaz won't ask. (Isaiah 7:10-16) Maybe he didn't ask because he was afraid of w...

John is in prison. We know how his story ends, and I suspect that he may know how it is going to end as well. He wants reassurance that Jesu...

No one knows the hour. Or even the day. Life will be going on as always...dinner parties, weddings, family reunions. And then...surprise! Th...

Remember me when you come into your kingdom. That's the request made by one of the thieves being crucified with Jesus. Jesus' respon...

When they saw it they all murmured. (Luke 19:7) Oh, those murmurers. Murmurers can make anyone (or everyone!) feel like they are out on a li...

No longer will one generation suffer for what their ancestors did. In the days that are surely coming, self-responsibility is the name of th...

Was it inevitable? That the great city would one day fall? And by the scriptural description, the city has fallen. (Lamentations 1:1-6) Nine...

Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that ...

Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit. Be those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they ma...

The story of Epiphany (Matthew 2:1-12) is, in one sense, about a quest...to follow a star...no matter how hopeless...no matter how far. * Th...

The prophet Micah points to Bethlehem as the place of origin of the one who will rule Israel (Micah 5:2-5a). When Micah is quoted in Matthew...

Sing, O Zion! Shout, O Israel! Rejoice, O Jerusalem! It's all good news from the prophet Zephaniah (3:14-20). God has removed all judgme...

Oh, Lord, we want to be in that number! When the saints go marching in, of course. And we are, at least symbolically, every time we walk int...

It's interesting to think about what is going on the world right now that will come to pass in the future. Seeds are being planted that ...

Uses of the book of Esther for artists: Reason to paint beautiful woman or a pageant of beautiful women. Reason to paint scenes in a hare...