“‘What are you looking for?’ These are the first words Jesus speaks in the gospel according to John…Christ’s inaugural question invites us to discern and articulate something significant about our lives, even our deepest desires....

“What I think most people find compelling about Nelson Mandela’s life is the twenty-seven years he spent in prison serving what was supposed to be a life sentence for speaking out against the oppression and...

“When I was a kid, we used to play a game on the school playground called ‘King of the Hill.’…Somebody would climb up on a mound of dirt at one corner of the playground and...

Rev. Dr. Courtney Allen Crump, pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia begins with the story of a man who visited a monastery in hopes of learning how to live a more holy life....

Rolf Jacobson, Professor of Old Testament and the Alvin N. Rogness Chair of Scripture, Theology, and Ministry, at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, preaches from Isaiah 1:10-18. He presents four points about the passage....