John 10:1-10 For almost ten years now, a group of Christians have gathered on Sunday mornings at Friendship Park, a plaza along the...

Luke 24:13-27 (MSG) On August 9, 2010, Ed Stafford plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil to cool off, pop open some...

John 20:1-18 (NRSVUE) On September 20, 2004, four U.S. Forest Service ecologists and their pilot took off in a small, single-engine plane...

Ezekiel 37:1-14 (The Message) I’ve been in conversation with the Ministerial Relations Committee about setting some goals for myself for...

John 9:1-11 (MSG) “I do not know what darkness means to someone who is blind, but I am beginning to understand that light has as many...

John 15:1-9 (NRSVUE) This is the second season of Lent I have let the daily reflections of John Pavlovitz lead me into each new day....

Genesis 12:1-4a (MSG) The second church I served—the Ogden Baptist Church—is a small church located in the town of Ogden, west of...

Matthew 17:1-9 (NRSVUE) Have you ever heard someone tell the story of their “mountaintop experience”? How they’ve “felt the Spirit” in...

Psalm 126 (MSG) It has now been two weeks, and I am happy to report that my abdominal muscles have, indeed, recovered! Two weeks ago, I...

Matthew 5:13-16 (NRSVUE) I do know that it’s possible to take a metaphor too far. And I know that no single descriptor from Scripture —...

Matthew 5:1-12 (NRSVUE) I’m willing to bet that many of you have heard all or part of today’s scripture reading before. We call these...

Matthew 4:18-23 (MSG) I know a man who lives in this area who loves to fish. Ned’s a very good fisherman, and he is the founder of a...

(From Rev. Laurie DeMott, retired pastor, Alfred Union University Church, 12.12.16) Luke 2:15-20 (The Message) My son, John, began his...

Matthew 2:1-12 (MSG) For five unusual days in September, a queue stretched ten miles across London. Through the night, in the cold,...