Mark Whittall

There is a recognition problem on the road to Emmaus. Jesus comes near to Cleopas and his companion and walks with them on the way, but...

Jesus came and stood among them, and he breathed on them. That’s kind of weird, isn’t it? Doesn’t that seem like a strange detail for...

Easter is just the beginning. Now I know that way we do things make it seem like Easter is more of an ending than a beginning. Easter...

From a high point in the old city of Jerusalem, our guide told us the story of King David who, because of the rebellion of his son...

Today is the fourth in a series of encounters with Jesus that we have been reading together during this season of Lent. First Nicodemus,...

“What has come into being in him is life, and the life is the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness...

I love the gospel that we just heard. It is another dialogue, another encounter, another one of these long conversations with Jesus that...

The gospel that we just heard is a story about birth. It is a story about how God gives birth to her children, or to put it another way,...

Life is a tug of war between testing and trust. When you are in the wilderness, will you test or will you trust? And in whom will you...

Today we begin with sin and death. Now that’s not a very popular opening line is it? I can imagine that half of our online worshippers...

How then shall we live? Last Sunday, Dennis reminded us that in the sermon on the mount, Jesus is calling for a change in heart, a change...

(Sermon on the Mount, part 2. For part 1, 'It Begins with Blessing' click here ) Back in seminary, when I was doing my theology degree...

(Sermon on the Mount, part 1) When you look around the world today, at the people you know, at the world you see laid out before you on...