Reflections on the Lord's Prayer Author: Tom Stiers I was raised in an atmosphere of Methodist piety. Sunday evenings we had family prayers and Bible reading. At each evening meal my father said grace. At our United Methodist Church...

God’s Watering Can Author: Susan Rose I am so intrigued by the enormous spectrum of human willingness or resistance to notice and honor the Divine. And there are so many ways in which God nourishes the growth of individual...

Fearful Author: Nicole Speer Ask and it will be given you; search and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. -Matthew 7:7 As someone who struggles with anxiety disorders, fear is a near-constant presence in my...

Barbie vs Superman   Author: John Bisceglia "Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted; but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they...

Author: Pedro S. Silva II   Psalm 139:7-10 Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Hades, you are there. If I take the wings of the...

Author: Matthew Benz-Whittington   If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all...

Author: Carolyn Gard   "Love one another as I have loved you." John 15:12. Although the recent snow has made everything beautiful with a coat of white, shoveling has gotten awfully old. My informal poll of friends tells me...

Author: Amy Ostwald   Matthew 7:13-14 (NRSV) 13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. 14 For the gate is narrow and the road is...

Author: John Bisceglia   For the first forty years of my life, I was a "peace lover." This was because of all the conflict in my family and then, in my 20s and 30s, my interpersonal struggles of being one thing while trying to...

Author: Jeanne Lounsbury   The wealth or "abundance” of our lives is a gift, not just a given. That is, no more than with life itself do we have this as something we can earn or deserve. It is not entitlement but blessing in...