The core of the social gospel reminds us that it's not our job to judge others, but to do what we can to ease suffering. A fitting 250th sermon posted…
In the prayer Jesus teaches us, we ask that God provide "our daily bread." What is that? How can we know? When we are giving to others, it makes us…
There is need all around us. Sometimes people take advantage. Compassion tells us it must not harden our hearts.
Sometimes, we are tempted to stop listening, to talk amongst ourselves, and to avoid proclamation. But Jesus calls us to proclaim the good news, to liberate the oppressed, to declare…
James famously warns us that faith without faithful action is dead. In the preceding stories he tells, he makes clear that the highest virtue is mercy, and that leaving people…
In John's account of the miracle of the loaves and fishes, where five loaves and two fish feed an assembly of five thousand people, it is a small boy who…
As we move on into the expansion of the kingdom of Israel under King David, we read about the celebration that accompanies the arrival in Jerusalem of the ark, and…
