During the last Christmas of his life, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was surprised in prison by a visit from his young fiancee’ Maria, who brought him a special gift -- a Christmas tree for his cell.  Unfortunately, young Maria had grossly miscalculated the size of the tree and...

When my twin sons were about ten years old, one of them came home in tears, devastated, heart-broken, even faith-shaken, because some older kid had verbally assaulted him saying, “There is no God.  The Bible is a bunch of fairy tales, and your parents are fools for...

One of the ironies of early Christianity’s development was the fact that God’s ordained “apostle to the Gentiles” had nothing to do with founding the most prominent early Christian church, the fellowship in Rome that was almost exclusively constituted of Gentiles. ...

The Bible’s greatest theme, the theme that constitutes the great truth of the universe, forms the foundation of our faith and is the cornerstone of all that believe.  This great truth so pervades every aspect of our life that it is like oxygen, so universally near to...

Whenever we behold someone emerging from the baptismal waters, we hear the Biblical formula gleaned from Romans 6 pronounced over that new believer: “Buried with Christ in baptism; raised to walk in newness of life.” To watch someone emerge from the baptismal waters...