We mostly preach sermons of comfort at funerals, dabbing at the tears with the Scripture's promises of heaven for the believer and help for the sorrowing. We preach Comfort (capital C) after great ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Let me assure you that I ...

“All this I do for the sake of the gospel, so that I too may have a share in it” (1 Cor 9:23). From the Book of Job to the novels of Dostoevsky, the question of why the innocent suffer has been the ...

On the Monday after preaching, as I think about what all of those words are doing now that they’re out in the world, my mind wanders to a scene from Marilynne Robinson’s novel Lila. The title ...

I taught religion in two Catholic high schools long ago. Freshman students were sometimes told by their older siblings to ask me this question: "Can God make a rock bigger than he can lift?" It was ...