The royal official from Capernaum gains Jesus' ear as much as the blind man on the road or the lepers. Desperation reduces us all at the threshold of faith. A sick child moves the official to seek out ...

Every now and then, you deliver a sermon that when you leave the lectern you haven’t the foggiest idea how those words you just preached landed with those sitting in the pews. It happens to all of us ...

After two millennia, the church continues to peer back into the first centuries of the emerging Christian faith community to find its foundation. The church then, suffering persecution from without ...

WITHOUT A DOUBT, it’s clear to all of us that for at least the last two or three years, the world of the church changed radically when COVID hit us all. As church goers and leadership learned of new ...

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In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 file photo, Rev. Shanan Jones delivers a sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) The major branches of ...