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Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores correction leads others astray. Proverbs 10:17 

In Luke 19 we read about ...

Fools show their annoyance at once, but the prudent overlook an insult.
Proverbs 12:16 

I’ve often thought that the old saying “Sticks and s...

Hopes placed in mortals die with them; all the promise of their power comes to nothing.
Proverbs 11:7 

In a worship song from the early 2000...

Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up. 

Today there seems to be so much restlessness in people’s hearts and lives. Peop...

This is a fitting passage to reflect on at the beginning of a new year, looking forward to what lies ahead in the next twelve months and als...

Another packed chapter: sending out of 12, feeding 5000, Peter’s confession, transfiguration, following Jesus and more.

Struck by Jesus sendi...

The prophet speaks God’s promise of return to the land of promise from their exile. 

Jeremiah paints a joyful and inclusive word picture of w...

This is a great psalm of praise to the Lord for the wonder of God’s creation.

On this first day of a new year on board a ship in the Bahamas,...

This is a fitting season of the year to read and reflect on this psalm that culminates in a celebration of God’s bounty that springs forth f...

The apostle Paul is wrapping up this second letter to Timothy, his spiritual son and an important pastor and leader in the early church.

Paul...

This passage is Jesus’ parable about the Pharisee and the tax collector who both go to the temple to pray.

What drew my attention in this rea...

This passage is part of a larger section in which God promises to return the Jewish exiles to the land of promise the Lord had gifted them i...

Through the prophet Amos, God speaks words of judgement upon Israel. And the primary sign among the people that their hearts have turned awa...

These verses are the final scene in Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son, or more accurately – the merciful father. It is one of the most fami...

Here at the beginning of Paul’s letter to the believers in Colossae, the apostle writes several things that caught my interest and that I wi...

In this chapter, as in several other psalms, the writer talks about a council of gods and the place of the God of Israel in relation to that...

This reading is a portion of the section on Isaiah's prophecy that talks about God's "suffering servant." As Christians, we hear these words...

John tells in this text that he is recounting Jesus' third post-resurrection appearance to the disciples.

They were back in Galilee, where th...

These verses are part of a larger unit in Revelation chapters 4 and 5, in which the lord gives John a glimpse of worship in heaven.

It is str...

This is a psalm that lifts up God's eternal greatness and our own frailty and dependence on the Lord.

It begins with the acclamation: "Lord, ...

These verses are the dramatic culmination of the account of Joseph, his life, and his family that begins in Genesis 37.

Growing up going to S...

This text has been called Jesus’ “Sermon on the Plain.” In these verses, in particular, there is a similarity with the Beatitudes in Matthew...

Paul continues teaching the Corinthian believers and us about the significance and meaning of Jesus resurrection.

A few days ago, I reflected...

This psalm puts before a stark contrast, a bright light, between the righteous and the wicked.

The psalmist begins by having some thoughts an...

After two and one-half chapters of the prophet speaking from the Lord words of warning, judgment, punishment, and destruction to Judah and J...

In these verses from the first part of Isaiah, the prophet speaks to the existential threat that Assyria and Babylon were for God’s people i...

The apostle Paul is in the last section of this letter to the believers in Philippi and what he writes is both memorable and powerful.

Today’...

This passage continues with the account of John the Baptist’s ministry that I reflected on recently from the first six verses of Luke 3.

The ...

I am fascinated that the lectionary has put these verses together. After reading them this time, it strikes me that there seems to be two di...

It is from the beginning of this Psalm that Jesus quoted as He was dying on the cross: “My God, My God why have You forsaken me?”

In that mom...

Continuing in the story of Job, after His devastating losses and health problems, three friends come to be with Job in his grief and pain; E...

As the gospel writer presents this encounter to us, Jesus is on His way from His main base of ministry in Galilee to Jerusalem where He know...

Second to last psalm begins with the psalmist exhorting the people to praise the Lord: sing a new song; praise God in the assembly; be glad ...

Text contains God’s instructions to Moses and Aaron for the institution of the Passover to remember how the Lord delivered them from slavery...

Paul moves from teaching about the inter-dependence of believers as parts of the Body of Christ with complementary roles to a rich section i...

Follows immediately after Simon Peter’s confession of Jesus as Messiah. It seems ironic that right after Jesus nicknamed Simon the Rock or R...

Jesus, in the text from the Last Supper discourses, speaks to his disciples and explains why it is to their advantage that he leaves them to...

This passage is the account of the Holy Spirit moving with dramatic power among the gathered disciples of Jesus in Jerusalem on the first Pe...

In this great psalm of praise to God as creator and provider, these verses focus the Lord’s manifold or many works.

The psalmist extols the v...

This is the Valley of Dry Bones passage in which God shows Ezekiel a valley covered in dry bones in a vision to illustrate the hopelessness ...

These verses are part of a larger section in which the writer explains to the readers, including us, how Jesus is our great High Priest.

Talk...

Beautiful, heart-breaking psalm in which David confesses his sin to the Lord after Nathan, the prophet, confronted him over his adultery wit...

These verses are familiar words from the Lord, through the prophet Jeremiah, to the exiled people of Judah in Babylon. 

God promises the peop...

Passage is the first telling of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments or “ten best ways to live” from God on Mount Sinai while the Israelites...

Wonderful psalm of praise and the way the psalmist leads us is by focusing on the Lord’s voice as a facet of God’s greatness.

We are called t...

During Paul’s third missionary journey, he went to Ephesus and met some believers who has been baptized with John the Baptist’s baptism of r...

The gospel writer describes John the Baptist, his ministry and that he baptized Jesus, among other Jews who came out to him in the wildernes...

Second time this reading has been in the lectionary in less than a month. On this reading, I noticed a word connection that I hadn’t seen be...