So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?”  He replied “it is no...

American poet Robert Frost once wrote: “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, A...

I once read that the five most hopeful words in the Bible are this: “And it came to pass.”  What does that mean?  It means that “It came” (...

During our evening prayers each night my husband and I have been studying the lives of women saints. We use a resource that tells the story...

The prophet Habakkuk wrote long ago: “O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not listen?   Or cry to you ‘Violence!’ and you w...

Many of us have sung the old hymn “Have Thine Own Way, Lord.”  It reminds us of the text from Jeremiah 18:1-4 that proclaims God as the g...

The first African American Methodist churches in the early 1800s were controlled by white senior pastors and trustees.   Chafing under oppr...