When I was a young father on a warm summer’s night, I called for my twin boys, who were about a year-old, to come out on the front porch. I wanted to show them a huge toad that I had spied on our front steps. Ironically, the boys were wearing night-shirts that...

Jesus had come home. He had been on a triumphant journey around the surrounding countryside, granting sight to the blind, healing the sick, cleansing the lepers, raising the paralytics, and challenging religious authorities as he preached penetrating messages and...

When we catch our first glimpse of John Mark, we may have seen all there is to see. Scholars have conjectured that the young man mentioned in Mark 14:51, who fled away naked into the night, was none other than John Mark. Scholars surmise that perhaps John Mark,...

Listen! Jesus says to his hearers. Listen! There once was a sower who went out to sow. However, this sower either had an impossibly high regard for the potency of these seeds, or he didn’t seem to care about what he was doing. This sower seems more like Mr. Magoo than...

The great German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote, “The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.” Not long after writing these words, he was arrested by the Nazi Gestapo and discovered amidst great...