We’ve seen lots of paintings titled “The Good Shepherd.” Maybe even have one at home. Some have Jesus standing there in the midst of a...

If you like books about espionage you know about the Witness Protection Program. In this program, the federal government provides key...

Poor Thomas… It doesn’t seem to matter that every other disciple doubted at one time or another. It doesn’t seem to matter that the other...

This article was published in "Preach" Magazine, which alas, had a short publication run and no longer exists. Since there is no one to...

I have a horse named Buddy. He is gentle and eager to please. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have a lot of self-confidence. He lets other...

I had a brother who wasn’t from my family. We worked a ranch down by the border where the rain clouds aren’t ever seen. Ol’ Rocko got...

Preaching Notes: Twice each year, on Palm Sunday and Good Friday, the reading of the gospel becomes a liturgical event in its own right....

There are seasons in my life --and maybe in yours-- when it seems like the Good News whispers while the Bad News shouts. A friend faces a...

They had been driven from their homes like cattle… forced to march through rugged land to a foreign country. We’re talking about the...

St. Paul is writing a letter to the Christians at Corinth because he is very familiar with that congregation. After all, he founded the...

It was the kind of day when the hills shimmered in the heat and the sun offered the illusion of water- just a little further down the...

From his miraculous birth to his baptism in the waters of the Jordan— from the feeding of the five thousand to the empty tomb on Easter...

If God is for us, who can be against us? The colt stood saddled, his eyes as calm as the Pool of Siloam. Then, the moment I pulled the ...

There’s a Texas Country song that goes like this: Storms running through the Midwest Like a bandit out on the loose. All the clouds are...

I have set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth, and the...

As we approach the Feast of the Transfiguration, it may serve us well to revisit “generic homilies.” Texts in multiple attestation...

We are soon entering the season of Lent, and for the second year, we will enter it masked and distanced, sanitized, gloved and Covid...

During the pandemic, pastors who may have preached a dozen funeral homilies over the course of typical year, are now presiding over...

In “Preaching as a Social Act,” Don Wardlaw offers a homiletic schema that includes three over-lapping spheres: the world of the Bible,...

Imagine you are invited to join on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. At the airport you are met by your guide and ushered onto the bus, off...