The first storm can be especially dramatic. Walls of water race along empty streambeds pushing a mixture of rock, soil, wood ...

The late Rudolph Bultmann often remarked, "A Gospel is simply a Passion/Resurrection narrative with a dozen or more introductory chapters." That means today's Gospel pericope is the first part of the ...

"The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." That stinging first sentence opens Mark Noll's game-changing book, "The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind," which ...

Our Lord Jesus Christ wants us to meet the needs of children. Christians and others in our community have met the physical and emotional needs of many children in so many wonderful ways that could ...

Jonah should win an Oscar as best comedian of the Hebrew Scriptures. Imagine how Charlie Chaplin would play Jonah — avoiding God, endangering a whole shipload of sailors, going overboard and finally ...

Christians celebrate Easter Sunday to commemorate Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, the miracle that started a global movement with 2.4 billion adherents. But what if Jesus’ family connections were ...

Three weeks ago, my two children and I accidentally got two puppies. They are beyond illegally cute, adorable and any other gag-able word replete with fluffiness. We had, and in a manner of speaking ...