An empty tomb. Soldiers were ordered to seal the entrance, but the seal had been broken. Running to the tomb, Peter sees the heavy stone that has been rolled...

“April is the cruelest month” in T.S. Eliot’s 1921 poem, “The Waste Land,” because, as spring brought signs of new life and renewal, Europe was in a crumblin...

In seminary, when I was taking the class that taught how to put a sermon together, I remember the professor saying that if you talk about sin and the forgive...

There’s a commercial for Hershey’s candy bars that tells a little story that I think we can all relate to. A teenage girl is sitting on the floor of her bedr...

I would like to start with the ending of last Sunday’s message. The conclusion went something like this: “Since we are living by the grace and power of God i...

At the start of this week, I began with my usual morning routine of making a cup of coffee. But my morning cup of coffee was the only part of my day that was...

Looking at the call of Abram in Genesis 12: 1-12, we see small word combinations that set the stage for Abram’s journey to a new land where he will become a ...

I was teaching the fourth and fifth-grade religion class, and the theme for the day was about choices and their consequences. To get the students thinking ab...

Even before the beginning of the first of the year, I was getting emails from Christian based companies that were promoting materials like daily devotions fo...

I have a couple of phobias. My biggest phobia is the fear of tight spaces. I’m not sure how I got this fear. From as far back as I can remember, I can’t thin...

During cold and flu season, I would do a commercial for any product that contains zinc. When I am feeling even a slight tickle in my throat, I take a zinc lo...

A lot of life is not ever meant to stay the same. God has made us to be forward moving people. Throughout Scripture, we see movement. After the fall into sin...

Thanksgiving is just a week away and the classrooms at St. Philip are filled with conversations about what we are thankful for. There are the obvious answers...