Titus 3:8-15; Luke 8:5-15   Icons certainly beautify the church, but not simply in the conventional sense of being aesthetically pleasing.  Instead, they manifest visually that the Son of God has called and enabled us to become His beautiful livin...

2 Corinthians 6:1-10; Luke 7:11-16            As we read in today’s gospel text, the widow of Nain certainly had no expectation that the day of her son’s death was “the day of salvation.”  It had been the worst day of her life, for in that time an...

2 Corinthians 4:6-15; Luke 6:31-36           People think about how to live a good life in many different ways.  Some want rules to follow, regardless of how obedience to them impacts their neighbors.  Others focus on achieving the results that th...

1 John 4:12-19; John 19:25-27; 21:24-25              There is much today that discourages people from building the kinds of relationships that help us flourish together as persons united in love.  In many ways, it is easier to think of ourselves a...