In the process of seeking your area of servanthood, strive to render service in hidden ways. A number of years ago, I chaired the planning committee for a church convention. It involved 200 churches. It turned out to be an extraordinary event. People left excited. The positive feedback was almost un...

You've probably been on a train entering one of our larger cities. There are usually patches where there seems to be graffiti everywhere like travelling through a hyperactive art gallery; colours, text, images all fighting for space and attention. And then there is Banksy... ...whose works of ar...

Where one experiences conflict, assault, opposition, there for sure the kingdom of God is functioning effectively, there through his Word Christ is effecting great things. And when the final conflict and attack come, when Satan attacks and terrifies you right before death with pictures and terrors o...

Our text also pictures some who were not a party to the slander but who also did not side with Christ. It says they testing Him, sought from Him a sign from heaven. They act as though they were ready to decide for Christ; only one thing is lacking. Christ should do a sign just [...]...

Station Church: S. Cecilia in TrastevereFrom The Passion And Death Of Jesus Christ, by Saint Alphonsus de Liguori:O sovereign God! Thou hast given Thyself entirely to me; and how than shall I not love Thee with my whole self? I believe, yes, I believe that Thou hast died for me, and how can I then l...

Trial, error, and success are the steps to finding your unique brand of servanthood. While following Jesus Christ always means becoming more Christ-like, as well as being part of Christ’s community of faith, the Church, God never intended for any two Christians to be exactly alike. Paul writes, â€...

Again by the miracle of delayed posting I bring you a thought for another day in Lent. As this goes up onto the web I am in School leading an early morning Lent session on the theme of Temptation, a very Lenten idea indeed. How often have you, like me, had a real high point - a moment of real triump...

My dear husband and I work in fields that look completely different. I'm a parish pastor. He consults with federal, state and local governments at the intersection of sustainable land use, transportation, and climate change.  My job is about as local as it gets. He racks up frequent flier ...

Last year, I tried to give up drinking Diet Coke for Lent and made it through the entire first day, shambling around the house like something from Night of the Living Dead . My husband got home from work, noticed my blank stare and slack jaw, realized what my problem was, and told me he was having n...

Just as Christ here by the Spirit and the Finger of God expels the devil, so also He still today imparts His victory against the devil and transfers us out of the kingdom of the devil into God’s kingdom of grace through the Spirit and the Finger of God; that is to say, through the [...]...