“Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out.” — Hebrews 10:24 (The Message version) They’re all around us. Some are military veterans.  I’m thankful for their service to our country. Some protested various wars.  I’m…

“Beware when politicians sound like preachers and preachers start sounding like politicians,”  began an editorial in The Christian Century magazine two issues ago. As a pastor who preaches and teaches as many as 9 times a week, that caught my attention…

“We know that we have passed from death to life” —1st John 3:14  This is the last in a short series of things we can know. We’ve been working our way from the end of this brief New Testament book…

“We know that we belong to the truth” — 1st John 3:19 Great promise here! But let’s put it in its orginal context. That verse starts and ends like this: “This then is how we know that we belong to the…

Post-Election Day  by Walter Brueggemann — Prayers for a Privileged People (Nashville: Abingdon, 2008), p. 149. You creator God who has ordered us in families and communities, in clans and tribes, in states and nations. You creator God who enacts your governance…

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“We know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.” —1st John 4:16, New International Version Third and final day with this one verse.  …

“God is love.” — 1st John 4:16b It can’t get much clearer than this: “God is love.” That’s pretty simple: “God is love.” The words are easy to grasp: “God is love.” And I think we just memorized another Bible…

“We know and rely on the love that God has for us.” — 1st John 4:16a Easy verse to memorize: “We know and rely on the love that God has for us.” That’s the first of three sentences that are 1st…

“I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.” — 1st John 5:13 “Anybody here wanna live forever?”  Ray Hildebrand sang that. I…