I walked away from it years ago. Too much, too soon. There was so much about it, I did not understand and I could not grasp the...

The Word of God says to us this very morning: "Do not worry," and "Do not be afraid!" How we respond in new situations and times of...

Lamentations 3:19-26 Pastor Michael Falgout October 2, 2019 When the book of Lamentations is read at all by Christians (being tucked...

Bible Study Commentary 1 Timothy 6:6-11 Pastor Michael Falgout A New Habit of Bible Study and Reflection Life has changed fairly...

Hiking is one of my favorite pastimes. There is something very satisfying about taking one step at a time and ending up far away from...

In this week’s gospel reading, we read Mark’s account of the transfiguration of Jesus (9:2-9). Peter, James, and John journey with Jesus...

Brothers and sisters, be diligent to make your calling and election sure…” (2 Peter 1:10) Chances are, if you grew up in an evangelical...

Matthew 23 You’ve heard of the eight beatitudes of Jesus in Matthew’s gospel, right? “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the...

Matthew 22:23-46 Even though the Bibles we read today are similar in content to the ancient scriptures around in Jesus’ day, the way we...

Matthew 22:15-22 Burned by all their previous encounters with Jesus, the Pharisees send others to do their bidding in this week’s gospel...

Matthew 22:1-14 In act 2, scene 2 of Shakespeare’s most ambitious play, Hamlet announces a sudden flash of insight: “The play’s the thing...

This week’s reading from Matthew’s Gospel begins with a word loaded with significance for its original Jewish audience: “Listen” or...

“By the rivers of Babylon,” the old Psalm goes, “there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion” (137:1). It is one of the...

Matthew 21:23-32 Every now and then, I catch myself sounding an awful lot like my parents. In particular, I’ve noticed that I’m always...

In the fifteenth chapter of his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul gets real with us Christians. “If our hope in Christ is for this...

How many times have we hit a bump in the road called life? Sometimes the bumps are little almost unnoticeable, maybe even annoying. We...

“You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall go well with you.” (Psalm 128:2) A young man was at...

All families have their problems. More than a century ago, Thoreau wrote, “Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows...

There’s a song by Matthew West called “Broken Things.” I find myself absentmindedly humming it throughout the day. It gets stuck in my...