The other day, I was talking to two fathers in our congregation about their sons being in the military and the real prospect that their sons might die in the Iraq war.
I didn’t bring the topic up, both fathers did. And these fathers were contemplating what it would mean for them to sacrifice their sons [...]

If anyone would be my disciple, tet them deny themselves, take up their cross and follow me;  Whoever finds their life, loses it;  Whoever loses their life, finds it.What does it profit you, if you gain the whole world and lose your own soul?
This verse and its variations is found six times in the [...]

Many of us struggle with temptation.  It would be nice if the primary temptations of life had to do with cookies, Twinkies and ice-cream!  But the reality is that temptation and struggle are not with these, but with the gut issues of life such as pride, greed, lust gluttony, laziness, anger and envy.                                                                 [...]

The gospel story of the paralytic and his friends is a story many of us heard in our early Sunday School years.  What does this story mean for us today?
There are four sets of characters in the story: the four friends, the one man who was paralyzed, Jesus himself, and the religious scribes.  Let’s [...]