How do we balance protecting ourselves from real harm and having an open, loving heart?

It’s funny how we react to change – both as individuals and as a faith community.

When was the last time you let down your guard and gave yourself over to the experience of hope and joy?

In this passage, the hearers are invited to have the same mind that was in Christ Jesus.

Much of what we do together in worship is celebrating the many ways that God’s steadfast love is made manifest.

How responsive are you to what you see and hear each day?

week before he is arrested, Mary seems to be the only one besides Jesus who grasps the significance of this moment.

Because of his encounter with Jesus, Paul was transformed from the inside out, leaving all the trappings of a charmed life behind to join the followers of Jesus’ way.

Read Psalm 126. Here, the psalmist is imagining what it was like for those in exile to return home. They envision this homecoming as a party filled with laughter, shouts…