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Stories, even accounts of real events, must be composed for the teller to present to the listener. To become lasting lore, stories are...

More than once, God visited and repeated his covenant promise to Abram (Genesis 12, 15, 17 and 18). We love to recall Abram’s response...

The Patience and Obedience of Sarai   Sarai and Abram have a problem. They are childless. God has promised something better, but God...

I suspect that the epitaph on my tombstone will say: “He never could keep a job.” Over a 50-year period of work I have had careers as a...

The Real Housewives of Nod: Adah and Zillah  In my Bible, the story in Genesis 4: 17-26 has a heading. It says the ‘Beginnings of...

Perhaps the OS, ‘the Original Sin’, includes the propensity of men to blame the woman. That happened to the first woman, Eve.   The...

What happened to Bonhoeffer?    Bonhoeffer ran an underground seminary at Finkenwalde from 1935 to 1937 when it was closed by the...

Bonhoeffer’s students put together his book titled Ethics  based on his lectures. Bonhoeffer ran an underground seminary when the...

Let’s go back to where this series of devotionals began. That would be with the person who wrote the book: The Cost of Discipleship,...

Last Thursday night, I went to a Recovery service that is held regularly at the church that we attend in Delray Beach. The Recovery...

Over time, John Wesley added ‘meeting places’, buildings so called rather than ‘churches’ since Wesley did not intend to create another...

Nineteenth Century England was organized around social classes. Distinctions between people and the privileges of class were at their...

In addition to being an evangelist, like George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley also had a gift for leading and organizing...

Why did Whitefield invite Wesley to come to Bristol to complete what Whitefield himself had started with his field preaching? This is a...

John Wesley’s life had caught up with his preaching, His theme was not only salvation by God’s grace through faith, now he also felt it...

John Wesley was at sea, both literally and figuratively. He was returning from Georgia, the ship sailing under the lee of Ireland making...

Susanna Wesley nurtured the sense that God had a mission for John. Step by step John developed a disciple’s understanding that there was...

I said last week that the church needs constant revival and renewal. When a generation adopts their father’s and mother’s renewal,...

How did the German Evangelical Church get so off track? They fell prey to the Devil’s trap as illustrated in Jesus’ temptations in the...

What did Bonhoeffer see as the consequences of ‘cheap grace’?   “We gave away the word and sacraments wholesale, we baptized, confirmed,...