Wise investors know the best time to buy is when everyone else is panicking. Jeremiah knew he could trust in God even when Jerusalem seem doomed. In …
Pastors
How to Serve God and Wealth
You can’t. At least not according to Jesus. But we can be clever in using wealth to serve God’s purposes. No matter how much wealth we have it’s …
Saving the One Percent
Jesus is the shepherd who leaves the 99 sheep to save the one. That’s one percent, right? We sometimes grumble about the attention paid to those at …
Prisoners
Paul treads uncomfortable ground in a lengthy treatment of the status of the slave Onesimus while he himself is a prisoner. Uncomfortable partly …
Turning the Tables
"Be appalled," said God. Imagine causing God to say that! The people in Jeremiah's time clearly had caused God to say that -- even telling the …
Shaken, and Stirred
The world is shaking. It always is, in one way or another. It is now, in particular ways. Virulent nationalism is on the rise. A wave of migration, …