When I taught Bible Classes at St. John Lutheran Church in Palmer, Alaska, I sometimes referenced two books. One of those ...

Discover how Jesus calmed a storm and how we can face our own personal disasters with hope and faith in today's homily.

The Cross of Jesus is a cosmic event. The world is darkened, when the Son of God is given up to death. The earth trembles. And on the Cross, the Church of the Gentiles is born. The Roman centurion ...

Gifts, talents, and special abilities are distributed from God within the personal blueprint of our calling. Yes, all of ...

God has appointed us to bear fruit. In the spiritual life, it can be hard to judge whether we are blossoming or wilting, so often trapped in isolated thoughts and feelings. Jesus, however, stands as o ...

As in all things, when we read a pas-sage presented to us in the Lectionary from the holy Gospel, we need to place it into ...

Retired Big Rapids pastor Ron Witbeck uses the Easter story to illustrated how God and Jesus models how to be "doers" of the ...

But before we turn to the Word of God, I must correct last week’s ... Most memorable was when the thief on the cross taunted Jesus, asking, "Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!" ...