I have often had the experience of working with a couple preparing for a wedding when I asked the couple if there were any scriptures that are significant to them that could be read during the ceremony. Blank stares. But sometimes, after a moment or two of awkward silence, a dim and distant light will flicker behind the eyes of one or the other – usually the bride-to-be – and she will pull up something from her memory and say, “What about that thingy about love?” Now, after you’ve done a few weddings, you learn how to interpret such phrases [READ MORE]

Years ago at the Stetson University Pastor’s School, the great Biblical Scholar Walter Brueggemann  gave a wonderful lecture about God and God's creation. His main point was that the world God created is an incredibly miraculous thing that is well-able to live on and sustain itself without our needing to be in control of it. And his message was that you and I need to learn to let go of life a little bit, and trust God to make it work for us. And so Walter Bruggemann re-told the Genesis story in a neat way. Just like you and [READ MORE]