A son is lost and everyone is found. The prodigal God welcomes everyone into the resurrection party! All are invited but each person has to make the journey.

It is against this backdrop, the journey with Jesus from Palm Sunday to Maundy Thursday to Good Friday to Easter, that Jesus shares another story about what it really means to follow him. What does a tower, a battle and salt have to do with following Him?

Even at our best, we are always looking for the limit when it comes to forgiveness. In the interests of fairness, we insist that there has to be some limit. Jesus isn’t just giving us a formula for forgiveness, he is redefining the terms of forgiveness.

What is love? What is God’s love like? Is it conditional? Is it performance based? Is it about how attractive we are, how good we are able to be? Jesus will shatter our long-held conceptions of not only “love” but “repentance” and “forgiveness” as well.

In most Bibles, Matthew 20:1-16 is labeled as “The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard.” But as we read and reflect on this story together, I think we could all agree that it ought to be called "the parable of the generous landowner."

The focus of the parable this week revolves around two of the least popular subjects in Christianity: judgment and money.

We’ll begin with a story that redefines the question of “Who is my neighbor?” by way of giving an answer. You might know it as the story of the Good Samaritan but I don’t know if that would have been Jesus’ preferred title.

We finally come to the end of the story of Acts only to discover the end is actually the beginning of our story! You and I live in the continuation of the story of Acts.

Have you ever bean the victim of "cause and effect" theology? Bad things happen to bad people. Good things happen to those who do good. Have you been taken in by the cult of celebrity? Have you worshipped the messenger rather than the message?

Paul is finally on his way to Rome. What follows is an eyewitness account of a breathtaking and miraculous odyssey at sea. Luke’s narrative of the voyage and shipwreck is one of the most graphic and suspenseful pieces in the Bible.