An angry mob drags Paul out of the Temple and nearly beats him to death. Listen in as Paul speaks from the heart about his life, his conversion, and his call to follow Jesus.

Religion can kill you. Christianity saves you. It is not a tradition that we shape but a way of living that shapes us. It is not a ritual for living in this world but an alternative way of life for changing the world we live in.

On All Saints Day we do more than remember the people who have gone before us in the faith. We celebrate who they lived for, the One before whom they live still—the author and perfecter of the faith—Jesus Christ.

Rev. Dr. Bryan Burton. Nearly 500 years ago, a simple but passionate Augustinian monk with a hammer in his hands and a list of 95 things he wanted to talk about in the other, started a conversation that wound up changing the course of world history.

I still have not found what I'm looking for.

The hardest part about waiting is losing interest, losing focus or losing touch with the object of our desire. How do we keep waiting when our heart just isn’t in it anymore? How do we have hope when the world seems hopeless?

Jesus’ birth is full of unanticipated twists and turns. Consider the genealogy of Jesus. The line doesn’t contain the best and brightest. Matthew offers a stunning declaration that this is part of God's master plan.

We arrive at the moment when Jesus addresses his mother: “Woman, behold your son!” With his next breath, Jesus turns to the disciple John and exclaims, “Behold your mother!” What are we to make of this exchange?

As we draw nearer to the cross, we come to Jesus' cry of dereliction: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Martin Luther once wrote, "God forsaking God. Who can understand it?" True. But let us struggle to do so anyway.

Jesus on the cross says to us, "I am thirsty." Dehydration was a part of the suffering of crucifixion. The disciple John, our eyewitness to these events, tries to make sure that we understand that Jesus' thirst was not just physical, but spiritual.