When You’re Walking the Wrong Way

Friends, I want to focus this week on the second reading, which is from the marvelous Letter to the Hebrews. It addresses a very important and very controversial topic—namely, the divine punishment. You would be hard-pressed to say that this is not a motif in the Bible. That’s si ... Show More

Friends, the title of my ministry, Word on Fire, came from our Gospel for today. Jesus says to his disciples, “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!” This is not the lighting of a cozy campfire. This is closer to, if you want, Sodom and Gom ... Show More

Friends, on this Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, our second reading from the Letter to the Hebrews offers us a great biblical description of faith. I stand with Paul Tillich, the Protestant theologian, who said that faith is the most misunderstood word in the religious vocabu ... Show More

In the fourth part of their discussion on the gospel of Luke, Tim and Jon talk about the strange story in Luke 9 of the transformation of Jesus on the mountain. In this travel section, we find many parables of Jesus, and the banquets and parties he attended. Jesus is fascinated w ... Show More

Do you feel stuck in your apprenticeship to Jesus? Drawing from the wisdom of followers of Jesus throughout church history, John Mark discusses how identifying landmarks on the journey of our apprenticeship to Jesus can help us get unstuck. This week, he talks about one ancient j ... Show More

Our beloved Jesus called for supporters to stand by him on the path of the Lord. The disciples responded to Jesus' call. Learn how the Quran and Islam describes the disciples of Jesus in this week's English Tafsir of Surah Al Imarn. 

Pastor Fouad Kahwagi shares on the centrality of the resurrection of Jesus in the Christian faith, the resurrection of the dead and the way we live our lives. يشارك القس فؤاد قهوجي عن مركزية قيامة يسوع في الايمان المسيحي، وقيامة الاموات، والطريقة التي نحيى فيها 

“A lot of us are emotionally allergic to preaching the Gospel of Jesus.”In our post-modern culture, sharing the good news of Jesus can feel insensitive or unkind. John Mark shows us that everyone is believing a “gospel” of what they hope in, and through the Scriptures, unpacks ho ... Show More