You and I may receive many invitations during our lifetimes to things that seem important, but no invitation is more essential and life-changing than the invitation God sends asking us to come and feast at his table of righteousness. According to Scripture, Truth is a person—Jesus— and he has been

There are five main Books of Psalms [Heb. tehilim; Gk. psalmos]; these writings are actually sung prayers of praise and part of the Hebrew writings [Ketuvim]. David wrote at least 73 of these musical prayers and as we read them we can recognize the alignment they reflect with many of

Friends, last week we spent 4 of our 5 devotional days together in the second chapter of 1 John. Today, the lectionary daily passage continues in 1 John, but we are moving into the third chapter. The topic, however, remains in alignment with the one I wrote on last week,

In our present culture, we seem to be fixated on words like inclusiveness, because we are afraid to exclude anyone for any reason or even keep a person accountable for a crime, a lack of skill, diligence, or motivation on a job. We are hesitant to temporarily hold children back

So far this week, we have looked at divine love and eternal life from the perspective of Christ’s disciples. John was an eyewitness to the power the Messiah brought to change hearts and renew minds. No religion has ever been able to influence this kind of radical change to the

The Sadducees—a group of Jewish aristocrats who were focused on the written law—did not believe in life after death and they spent time in many contentious arguments with the Pharisees about the subject. They based their stand of the resurrection on the fact they found nothing in the Pentateuch—the Books