God gave to Solomon the wisdom of discernment; to know what is right and to know that is wrong. As creations of the God of compassion, we too receive the gift of wisdom. This gift leads us to do what is right in God’s eyes. To show compassion to others....

As Christians, we have long believed that how we live matters to God. We are to live as neighbors to one another, the foundation of which is knowing the God to whom they belong. Jesus demonstrated with his life that the way we live with God and our neighbor was...

In church circles, there is an old expression that goes like this. Work as if everything depends on you and pray as if everything depends on God. If I’ve heard that phrase once, I’ve heard it a hundred times. There seem to be times in our church life when we...

As Christians, faith calls us to give up ourselves so that the powers of this world do not have the last word. Look at the kind of life that Jesus calls us to. Meekness, mercy, peacemaking, these are the way of life for everyone who calls himself or herself a...

God loves us all and chooses us all. This is the grace of God. While the Bible tells the story of one people, the story is also about us. The Bible is our story and when that really sinks in then the Bible is not just a story, it is...

Christians seldom chose the path of transformation, what theologians over the centuries have called the “path of descent;” the path Jesus choose of humility and self-sacrifice for the greater good. We instead, like the disciples and the people of Noah long before them seek something else. Christians are just not...

As we see in our country, our communities and our churches, the courage to believe in Jesus to be who is says that he is, is waning. It used to be that the hardest dynamics of being a person of faith was to help others understand the subtle differences between...

On that day, where Jesus came out of the waters of the Jordan and the voice from heaven spoke divine intervention, he became the fulfillment of the all that God was doing in the life of the Israelites. So, once again Jesus had to ask himself as he did so...

In so many ways of our life, we worked to set Jesus apart from us, as if there are no parallels between the two, he and us. But I am here to tell you that we are much more the same than we are different. We are a son or...