God. We’re pretty sleepy these days, maybe like Samuel, waking up to a whisper in the middle of the night. We try to make sense of what we hear.We try to make sense of who we hear.Was it a voice in our dreams, echoing a scolding we heard last week or as a child?Was it […]

Awhile back, I was cleaning up some files. I found this set of questions and sample answers. It turns out I published them more than a decade ago. Sometime after I published the list, I did some work to offer sample answers from the writings of people in the New Testament, but I never shared it […]

I wish I could remember the details of the story. But here’s what I remember. Someone’s last words at the end of a long life of service to God and others were simply quoting a verse: “she did what she could.” Mark tells a story about a dinner late in the life of Jesus. It’s in Bethany, […]

At the hospital, we often come face to face with having to decide what really matters. We face traumas and trials and diseases and diagnoses and we want to know the heart of what we need to do. “In the middle of all the chaos, what do I need focus on?” “As I focus on […]