These are the lyrics to a song I wrote many years ago, but it is appropriate to the season of Lent and the series I have been doing on Isai...

Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the gl...

Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed fr...

Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed and for...

After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigur...

Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! (Romans 7:25) In Romans 7:7-24, Paul describes the experience of a person t...

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one. (Matthew 6:13*) Yesterday we saw that Jesus knows how to deal with temptation ...

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one. (Matthew 6:13*) There are two halves to this petition in the Lord’s Prayer: “L...

Some thoughts culled from my random file. About faith, love, life and relationship with God. Some have come to me in moments of quiet reflec...

Give us this day our daily bread. (Matthew 6:11) This, of course, is from the prayer Jesus taught his disciples and in the “Sermon on the Mo...

Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. The first thing Andrew did was t...

Again, the next day, John stood with two of his disciples. And looking at Jesus as He walked, he said, “Behold the Lamb of God!” The two dis...

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29) The “nex...

“I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands one you do not know. He is the one who comes after me, the straps of whose sanda...

At the end of Christmas comes the season of Epiphany , which begins on January 6. Epiphany means “appearing” or “manifestation.” In this se...

Random thoughts for a new year, culled from the old one. About faith, love, life and relationship with God. Some have come to me in moments...

As we head into 2015, and as a way to recap this past year of The Faith Log , here is a baker’s dozen of the most popular posts I wrote in ...

You will arise and have compassion on Zion,     for it is time to show favor to her;     the appointed time has come. For her stones are ...

The ox knows its master,     The donkey its owner’s manger, But Israel does not know,     My people do not understand. (Isaiah 1:3) We o...

Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” (Luke 1:38) “In the beginning,” according to t...