This is the time of year when our schedules and life are filled with chaos, frenzy, and doubt. Today’s lessons seem to recognize this reality as a starting point. For…

Jesus, on the cross, is our judgment. Here—vividly, dramatically before us—is the horrible result of human sin. Here is the end of all our noble motives and high-minded sentiments: the…

A new heaven and a new earth…wars and persecutions—those things don’t seem to go together. But they do. Our seemingly contradictory lessons speak of endings and beginnings—times of trial, times…

Is there a future beyond this week’s election? Today’s lessons answer with a resounding, “Yes!” Haggai comforts those who remembered Solomon’s temple in its heyday, saying that the new temple…