“The Lord, the God of your ancestors…has sent me to you” (v. 15).
While the name of Moses is highly esteemed today, Moses did not have
a good name in Egypt.

“Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground” (v. 5).

I’m not sure we do a lot of bowing down these days. Too many of us
are stiff-necked people who claim to have all the answers

I know God is everywhere, but I was overwhelmed by God’s love when I encountered the living Savior on a faraway continent.

At least the disciples knew whom to call, and who had the power to save them from the storm.

I teach African American history at the local university, and the students are always wide awake when I tell the story of Harriett Tubman and the Combahee River attack.

How could we forget the Lord who comforts us, who stretches forth the heavens and stirs the sea? Yet, here, God feels the need to introduce himself, as if somehow we have not met.

Isaiah is calling us to active faith—faith that listens and looks. I left my full-time legal career to become a minister. People thought I was crazy!

The midwives had a choice. They could have followed Pharaoh’s order to kill all the male children or they could follow God and let the boys live.

The core of this passage in Isaiah is that God’s heart is to gather all peoples to himself. God’s door is open to all—the foreigners and the outcasts included—to the holy mountain, …