The other day, I needed an unusual piece of hardware. I wasn't sure what it was called, but figured I could find...
Psalm 145 celebrates the greatness and goodness of God.
In yesterday's reflection, we focused on the remembering aspect of the Lord's Supper. When we receive the bread and the cup, we are to do so "in remembrance" of Jesus. This is a...
David has gone to the same camp for the past nine years. He worked his way up the ranks of awards and...
In order to deal with problems in the way the Corinthians were celebrating the Lord's Supper, the Apostle Paul reminded them of the tradition he had passed on earlier. He told once again...
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I'm making biscuits tonight. My son is coming home. Clouds roll overhead, layers of gray upon gray. Wind shakes windows, sends rain in pellets, lashing glass. Where is he now? Still on the...
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As we have seen, there was a major problem in the way the Corinthian church was celebrating the Lord's Supper. Because they...
In yesterday's reflection I explained some cultural background that helps to account for the odd behavior of some of the Corinthian Christians.
After dealing with the issue of appropriate dress in the corporate gathering of Christians in Corinth, Paul turns his attention to problems...
While skirting the headlines of the local paper last week, I was delighted at a little gem tucked away at the bottom the front page. The article chronicled a London theater group’s attempts...
The issue of women's head coverings is not a major one in most of our churches today. (I expect, however, that there...
L.L. here, remembering my rocking days. I'm talking about first grade. Me and old Mrs. Serafin.
As I explained in yesterday's reflection, some of the Christian women in Corinth had been removing their headscarves in worship gatherings because this had been their practice in their previous...
When I was a young boy, my family and I attended church with friends who were Roman Catholic. That was when most...
It could have been disconcerting, if not unnerving. It was difficult enough to deal with the change of doubling the size of...
In his final word on the whole issue of eating meat offered to idols (which is wrongly added to chapter 11), Paul tells the Corinthians, "Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ" (11:1).
The prolific composer Johann Sebastian Bach often added the initials "SDG" to the bottom of his musical works. These letters stood for the Latin phrase, soli deo gloria, which means, "Glory to God...
I grew up in a family of four children. My brother, sisters, and I got along fairly well, though we had our moments of conflict.
