Mark Whittall

It’s been forty days. For the apostles, the pain and grief of the crucifixion, the initial confusion of Jesus’ resurrection, these have now settled into what they’re starting to think is a new normal. Jesus is with them, alive, appearing to them, teaching them once again, speaking to them once again about the kingdom of God. It’s been forty days. They know their scriptures. Forty-day periods are significant. Noah spent forty days on the ark before he and the animals were ab

Sometimes Jesus speaks a word that remains so vivid, so pivotal in the imagination of the people who heard it, that when they wrote down...

Jesus promised. Now it’s happening. It’s Pentecost. Jesus promised that he would send the Holy Spirit to them, that they would be filled...

What if we are the early church? We don’t usually think that way. After all, 2000 years is a long time. We think that the early church is...

Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb,...

It’s really hard to figure out what to do with your life. It’s even harder to figure out what God is calling you to do with your life. ...

It is Trinity Sunday. And the Trinity is all about … us. Maybe you thought I would say that the Trinity is all about God. Well, I’m not...

Have you ever been swept up by a sudden force of great power? A force so overwhelming it was like a roaring fire or the rush of a mighty...

The Ascension of Jesus caught the disciples by surprise. They weren’t expecting it, and they didn’t understand it. So I guess if we’re...

Have you ever noticed that in our culture we tend to see things as either/or rather than both/and? We like dichotomies: this or that,...