Dear Brothers, The essence of our public ministry vocation is offering the water of life that alone satisfies perfectly and forever thirsty human hearts. Logic would suggest that those who dispense the water of life ...
Dear Brothers, My life has been a painful and at the same time beautiful 57-year journey into the depths of the depravity of my sinful heart and into the still more astounding depth of God’s ...
Dear Brothers, Even though John the Baptizer intentionally pointed two of his disciples away from himself and to the Lamb of God, might it still have hurt just a bit as John and Andrew walked ...
Dear Brothers, I’ve never visited the ruins of Herod’s stronghold Machaerus and peered into the depths of the dungeon that may have held John the Baptist. Yet in Sunday’s gospel (Matthew 11:2-11), that dungeon’s contours ...
I’ve never voted a straight party Sadducee ticket. I’m not a rationalistic skeptic who denies the reality of the resurrection. But I understand the doubt that undergirds a key plank in their party platform. Sadducee-like ...
Dear Brothers, Are you giving God a black eye? Sorry, you cannot answer “no.” One way or another, every child of God does it. The only question is: which way will you administer it? We ...
(This is the chapel devotion at the seminary for Monday, September 12, 2016.) Dear Brothers, Are we in danger of chasing from Jesus those he rejoices to reach? It’s a sobering question that next Sunday’s ...
Dear Brothers I have a love/hate relationship with the Olympics. As a child I ate it up. I dreamt of being an Olympic swimmer or runner or biker - or whatever competition I had just ...
It doesn’t seem like a hard question to answer, does it? Is God’s to-do list more important than your to-do list? That’s what we call a no-brainer, right? Not so fast. In the midst of ...
So says the Savior in next Sunday’s gospel (Luke 7:36-50). Simon, of course, was sure he grasped what was shameful. A notorious sinner was perpetrating a home invasion on his property. There she was, a ...
