In the scripture above most commonly titled “The Parable of the Persistent Widow,” just as in many other parables of Jesus, like the Parable of the Good Samaritan, or the Parable of the Sower, or of t...  Read More

There is something about summer that invites us to slow down. For some, summer means vacations, family gatherings, long days, cookouts, trips to the shore, or simply a change from the normal rhythm of...  Read More

By Rev. Franck AguilhThe word “fear” and its many variations such as: afraid, feared, fears, etc.  appear 180 times in the Bible, in the Old and the New Testaments. In fact, in the very first book of ...  Read More

You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life, and it is they that testify on my behalf. Yet you refuse to come to me to have life.John 5:39–40 Come is a verb. In the ...  Read More

As most, if not all, of you know, a couple of months ago, my wife had knee replacement surgery. Though she was in the hospital for just one night, the post-surgery physical therapy requirements are ra...  Read More

In the thirty or so years that I have been in ministry, I can hardly count the many times I have been called to answer or explain questions dealing with prayers: How come God has not yet answered my p...  Read More

Bear one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2 Sometimes a single image lingers in the heart long after the television is turned off. This week, I found ...  Read More

This past Monday, the Men Ministry of St. Mark just completed five weeks of Bible Study based on the Old Testament book of Nehemiah. I had the privilege and the pleasure to be the leader of the group ...  Read More

“Where you go, I will go… your people shall be my people, and your God my God.” — Ruth 1:16I remember sitting at a kitchen table one afternoon, watching a woman I knew, not my mother, though she might...  Read More

“He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.”— John 10:3–4 (NIV)I have a phr...  Read More

“If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”The other day, something happened at home that stayed with me longer than I expected. For a few weeks now, my hus...  Read More

Colossians 3:17Next month will mark the 16th year since I retired from parish ministry. It was not because I was too old, or ineffective in doing what I was tasked to do as a Pastor. In fact, I retire...  Read More