Jesus' metaphor about salt was actually about fertilizer.

Discovering hope and healing for fallible followers through Jesus’ faithfulness in the Gospel of Mark.

The Israelites needed a little less grown-up good sense, and a little more childlike wonder. So do we.

Only some believers are ordained. But all are priests.

How I’ve come to identify with Gideon the wimp.

Jesus’ miracles promise a better fate—including for my daughter, who died at age 32.

If we are in Jesus, we will stay connected to him.

Many people today find the famous psalm troubling. But we need it now more than ever.

Sometimes he pulls us into the ring—but he always gives us grace to endure.

How I discovered God's plan to reach a lost and sinful world.

We know her as sexually immoral. Her community would have known otherwise.

A wizened sage named Ecclesiastes tamed my youthful cynicism.

Summoned by God, I learned to follow him in trust and vulnerability, even when I felt displaced.

Though unseen and unheard, he orchestrates the details of our lives—even when they are falling apart.

And everything else. How I learned he’s an all-or-nothing Lord.

The psalms of lament invite us to voice our frustrations—and provide a reason to hope.

We sometimes fail to see Jesus for who he really is, even when he stands right before us.

The day reading Philippians revealed to me a deeper knowledge.