It seems that Paul, Saint Paul, had been challenged about his credentials.
Why do we sing this? This man was literally saying, God, I can die now.
Who doesn't love the giving and receiving of gifts at Christmas time?
I was recently watching a video interview of Elon Musk and Elon Musk was explaining how he doesn't even have a house that he lives in.
My phone is ringing, pick up my phone, and on the other end of the phone someone says, “Luke, this is your conscience. You're missing your final exam.”
People possess different spiritual gifts and we might be tempted to look at other people and think, oh, I wish I could do what they do.
Recently there was a news story about a teenager who was fishing with his dad up at the Lake of the Woods in northern Minnesota.
Some people have gone to tremendous lengths to build impressive mausoleums or tombs. What makes a tomb great and impressive?
Here we are in Holy Week and we are considering especially the passion, the suffering, the death of our Savior Jesus.
Sometimes we struggle with being patient. One of the professions that we have in our world that I think demonstrates the most patience and most reliance upon God is the vocation of farmer.
Sometimes we're tempted to think that we are self-made people. I have earned this. I have done this.
It's a silly story, but it is fun to think that we have someone who does the worrying for us here and we don't have to pay for it at all.