The psalmist said, “Come and hear.” The question for each of us is whether we have something to say when someone takes us up on the invitation.
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Into Your Hand
Each generation of faith picks up the same words and speaks them into a new situation, trusting the same God who has been revealed with increasing clarity.
The Pastor and the Pasture
They gathered their congregations in remote hillsides and moorlands for illegal outdoor worship called conventicles, with lookouts on the ridgelines watching for government dragoons. And in those hidden fields, hunted pastors led scattered flocks to literal pastures, singing Psalm 23 from the Scottish Metrical Psalter together.
Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
The Wizard of Oz says, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”. The gospel says to come, look closely.
The Path of Life Begins at an Empty Tomb
Picture it: a man who had staked his entire life on the resurrection of Jesus, walking past hundreds of monuments to the dead, carrying a message that death had been defeated.
I Shall Not Die, But Live
The camp doctor who witnessed his execution later recalled that Bonhoeffer knelt in prayer before walking to the scaffold. His last recorded words, spoken to a fellow prisoner that morning, were: “This is the end. For me, the beginning of life.”
Famous Last Words
Archaeologists have found this same word written across ancient receipts and invoices in the Mediterranean world. It was the word you wrote when a debt had been fully satisfied. Jesus chose a word the entire ancient world would recognize as a statement of completed transaction.
An Eternal Kingdom Built on a Discarded Stone
A cornerstone had to do something that ordinary wall stones could not. It had to anchor two walls at their junction, bearing load from two directions at once.
The Resurrection Isn’t Plan B
When God asks, “Can these bones live?” the question hangs in the air. Ezekiel wisely answers, “O Lord God, thou knowest.”
The Blind Man Who Saw What Everyone Missed
…Farmers cursed when black sludge contaminated their water. Drake saw what others missed: