What We Think We Want   ( Mark 1: 14-20)

As I do every Christmas season, I took time one December evening to watch It’s a Wonderful Life. As many times as I have seen it, I always find something new. Do you remember that pivotal scene where frustrated, stymied George is encouraged by his mom to walk...

“Go! Go Forward!”   (Romans 15: 20 -24 )

How often do we stop to recognize that God’s covenant interaction with humanity starts with the simple command, “Go”? God says to Abram, “Go! Go from your country and go from your kindred to the land that I will show you.” God says to Moses, “Go confront Pharaoh and...