“Action or contemplation?  Service or worship?  Hospitality or prayer?  For as long as the church has existed, we’ve debated these dichotomies.  Which is more important – kneeling at the altar, or mopping the church floors? ...

“Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return…This season we are in the thick of now is one that confronts our mortality head on.  Death is part of our living. To be...

“When I was growing up, we would often go to my grandparents’ house in South Carolina for a week or so in the summer time,” begins Kristin Adkins Whitesides, pastor of First Baptist Church, Winchester,...

“The “Lost Years”…sounds like a suspense TV series…“The Lost Years” can also refer to a big chunk of Jesus’s life,” says Scott Spencer, author and New Testament scholar. He continues, “From infancy to 30, we...

“Where would we be without the faith of Mary and Elizabeth?” ponders Phillip Martin, pastor of Epiphany Lutheran Church in Richmond, Virginia. In today’s passage from Luke 1:39-45 (46-55), Mary allows herself to become God’s...