Just prior to the crucifixion, Pilate asked Jesus, “What is truth.” Little did he know that his question would echo throughout history and become a prophetic statement about modern times.…

The story of the Transfiguration as depicted in Mark 9:2-8 tells us that Jesus’ clothes became “dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them.” The apostles saw Jesus…

Newborn babies are self-focused. They cry when they are hungry, need attention, or need to be changed. Toddlers are naturally selfish and must be taught to share. Our “I”-ness often…

Ten of us, all strangers, were sitting around a campfire in Adirondack chairs. I was engaged in a deep, emotional, and spiritually moving conversation with the couple on my right.…

Jesus tells us that healthy people do not need a physician, but sick people do. Spiritually speaking, we are all sick people. Jesus came to heal the sick and call…

In the Old Testament, Job asks, “Is not man’s life on earth a drudgery?” He goes on to say, “So I have been assigned months of misery, and troubled nights…

In chapter six of Mark’s Gospel, we read that Jesus was unable to perform mighty deeds in his native place. We are told that Jesus was amazed at their lack…

One day Charlie received a notification from the local zoo. He had been chosen out of a large group of applicants to raise a baby gorilla that was abandoned by…

Have you ever had the impression that sacrificial blood was flowing everywhere in the Bible? In Old Testament times, animals were always being sacrificed. The aroma of a Texas Bar-B-Q…

Recently as I reflected in prayer on the Baptism of our Lord, the Holy Spirit gave me a new insight. As we all know, baptism involves being plunged down before…