“Yahweh is sovereign” (ap). That’s relatively easy to proclaim when God is off on God’s holy mountain. But what if the holy mountain is my heart? What if the cherubim God...

God’s glory on the mountain is “like a consuming fire” (niv). Scripture often associates fire with God’s presence. But God’s fire isn’t destructive. It’s transforming. It consumes, yes, but to purify...

We long for experiences of revelation like Moses’—maybe not with all the drama and special effects, though we must admit sometimes we wish for exactly those. We want the clarity and...

This week’s passage from Matthew’s Gospel makes clear that the external work of prayer does not replace the internal work required to support it. Today’s warning is much like the Gospel...

In this passage from Deuteronomy, God makes clear that life and death, blessing and curse, are set before us. Our task in this world is to choose life again and again....

Today, Valentine’s Day, is the feast day of Saint Valentine. As with most early Christian saints, there is some controversy around who exactly Saint Valentine was. While we may never know...

The first Gospel begins with a genealogy of Jesus and then quickly moves on to the infancy narratives involving magi from the East coming to visit the new King of kings....

After establishing the proto-church in Corinth, Paul moves on to spread the good news to other communities. But he stays in touch. The epistles, like this one, are Paul’s correspondence to...

Psalm 119 is the longest psalm. Each of the twenty-two eight-verse stanzas corresponds to a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The entirety of Psalm 119 sings God’s praises, particularly the joy...

This passage from the Hebrew scriptures comes toward the end of the book of Deuteronomy and is part of a section known as the Final Words of Moses. Here, the author...