Category: Biblical Devotional

The prayer of forgiveness continues to rescue sinners and make pilgrims down the ages because it proceeds from the throne of the Lamb that was slain, who ever lives to…

“This day you will be with me in Paradise.” I preached this sermon on Good Friday 2017 at my home parish in Pennsylvania. Since it speaks of an event subsequent…

 I preached this meditation at my parish church in Pennsylvania on Good Friday 1995  Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!”…

Sermon Preached at Uganda Christian University Easter Sunday 8 April 2012 Today marks the end of the 40-day Lenten season and the beginning of the Easter Season, which runs for…

The Empty Tomb stands at the head of the Easter season as a remembrance that the Resurrection life – Jesus’ and ours – can be entered only by the gate…

One of our family’s favorite Christmas activities is reading Barbara Robinson’s wonderful story, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. It tells of how some ragamuffin children called the Herdmans invaded a…

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, recently issued a press report about how he experiences God as father: The Most Revd Justin Welby said that calling God “father” for him…

Twenty years ago, I gave a lecture titled “Seeing Jesus: Who Did Jesus Think He Was?” Here is the way I began it (updated a bit): When I became a…

No, “invisible things” are real entities that can never be seen by our mere human senses. The first Soviet astronaut, Yuri Gagarin, followed shortly by the Anglican bishop John Robinson,…

Imagine yourself standing in front of one of those huge old tapestries that one sees hanging in a cathedral.[1] You immediately notice the intricate weaving into rich patterns of themes…