Back in 2003 I was going through a time of great uncertainty and doubt. I have always struggled with belief in God. As a pastor, that bothered me for obvious reasons. It bothered...
The myth of the do-it-all multi-tasking woman may look great on paper, in reality, it’s just plain exhausting. The truth is this...
Her first job is a unique one: religious satirist. Becky Garrison talks about life in a way that makes all of us...
Over the 2009 holidays I fed my belly with lumpia, atole, chocolate cake—everything that came out of my kitchen.
Just a little over a week ago, I was surprised with a getaway birthday weekend to Houston. It was a weekend filled...
Forty years ago, my wife and I had been married a little over a year. We were living in Houston, and I...
I love pickles–ALL sorts of pickles. Pickle spears to accompany sandwiches, dill slices on hamburgers, little gherkins for snacking, and giant pickles...
I remember reading in the late 1980s that because of computers and their productivity we were entering a world of limitless free time, a calm and creative age.
But the Pharisees and their teachers of religious law complained bitterly to Jesus’ disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with such scum?"
After Jesus was arrested, he was taken to the home of the high priest, where he was interrogated by Jewish leaders from...
I don’t know about you, but my first response to this section of Jesus’ sermon is one of considerable uneasiness.
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified ... for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.
"We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body."
“As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. For, he says, ‘In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped...
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come!”
The Gospel can sound crazy and nuts, giving anyone reason to reject it.
I have the tendency to ask my loved ones to pay attention to all the great things I’m doing.
Jesus used this healing to demonstrate that his cleanliness is more powerful than her uncleanliness.
I have heard miracles described not as things that should not be, but instead as revealing the way things should be.
