The Transfiguration is a major feast days in the Eastern Orthodox tradition.  We don't do so much with it in...

This Sunday we continue with more parables describing the Kingdom of Heaven.  In four, short, pithy parables, Jesus presents us...

Sunday continues Matthew's collection of Jesus' parables, with more on sowing seed, an image very familiar to all Jesus' hearers....

This Sunday's Gospel lesson is the parable of the sower, in which Jesus uses the familiar image of someone planting...

Jesus said to the crowd, "To what will I compare this generation?  It is like children sitting in the marketplaces...

One of the things that amazes me about Jesus is the degree to which He identifies with us.  In Sunday's...

"Talking shop" with some fellow clergy, we were discussing the question, "What is the biggest block to real Christian discipleship...

Every Christian I have ever met believes that, as Christians, we are called to serve others.  And there seems to...

Some people are hard to take.  There are two things I try to remember when dealing with such people:  1) ...

The Gospel for Sunday tells of one of Jesus' resurrection appearances, but has an surprising statement. "When they saw [Jesus],...