Mark 9:2-8 is the account of the Mount of Transfiguration when Jesus allowed Peter, James, and John to witness an unveiling of his divine nature. But they also saw two other figures on the mountain.

Luke 4 tells about the scene of Jesus announcing the beginning of his ministry in the synagogue at Nazareth.  To do so he reads a familiar passage from the prophet Isaiah.  But in reading the well-known verses, Jesus does something unexpected, and it got him in some trouble.

If God is love, and his nature is perfectly revealed in Jesus, how do we reconcile that with some of the violent ways God is described in the Old Testament?

A big part of the mission of Jesus on earth was to show us what God is really like. His first-century audience had some misconceptions of God's nature, and many of us still share those misconceptions.

Christian prayer is standing on the fault-line, with one foot on earth and one in heaven, trying to hold, or bring, the two together. Today we will look at The Lord's Prayer as we conclude the series called All Kinds of Prayer.

Hallelujah! In Hebrew, hallelu means “praise”; Jah is a shortened version of God's name in Hebrew, Yahweh.  So, Hallelujah simply means “Praise God!”  This is prayer that sings and dances.  Today we'll look at some principles of praise.

Psalm 46 is written with a distinctive feature: after each of the three sections there is a pause, an interlude, a moment of silence. It's a reminder that we need such pauses in our busy lives, as well.

Psalm 72 imagines a new kind of world when God's Kingdom comes to its full fruition through the work of the coming Messiah. We should pray this kind of prayer, and then work to do something about it.

The Gospel of John ends in a curious way, with Peter's future hanging in the balance.

When we emerge from the long tunnel of the dark night of the soul, we begin to see things differently.  So we offer a one-word prayer that expresses our new perspective.  Psalm 46 is that sort of prayer, which progresses through four points.