Luke 16-18 Worship Scripture Old-school preachers in my tradition were often masterful rhetoricians, wordsmiths par excellence. The best were known...
Mark 6-7 Worship Scripture I was 13, in eighth grade, when the principal came on the intercom after lunch and delivered a thrilling announcement:...
Mark 4-5 Worship Scripture One Saturday afternoon, our church gathered at a community park for a church-wide picnic and softball game. After I...
Malachi 1-4 Worship Scripture I find it interesting that respected bible scholars suggest that there never was a man named Malachi who wrote the last...
Zechariah 11-14 Worship Scripture As I searched reliable commentaries for insight into today’s final chapters from Zechariah, I found that when the great...
Joel 1-3 Worship Scripture The semester after I retired from my full-time career in public higher education, I accepted a job teaching at the...
Hosea 10-14 Worship Scripture In Hosea’s final chapter, the prophet implores the wayward to “Return,” which means the same as repent, the...
Ezekiel 31-32 Worship Scripture A church near my home town produces an annual July 4th Sunday service that’s as red-white-and-blue as any July 4th...
Ezekiel 28-30 Worship Scripture As I read Ezekiel these past days and noticed how frequently God addresses the prophet as son of man, I grew curious...