by afladmin | Jul 8, 2025
By: The Rev. Prof. Stephen Noll On Christmas Eve 2007, my wife and I were in the Holy Land and travelled from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. My strongest memory of that visit, I must confess, was the Israeli security wall – going through the checkpoint, changing drivers...
by afladmin | Jul 8, 2025
By: The Rev. Prof. Stephen Noll Many who grew up watching Perry Mason, Ben Matlock, or perhaps some other crime television program came to understand that you don’t believe everything you see. In this generation of CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) and modern scientific...
by afladmin | Jul 8, 2025
By: The Rev. Prof. Stephen Noll The theme for this month is “abounding” and “abundance.” The Book of Genesis teaches us that God created the world “very good” and that Eden was a luxuriant garden which Adam and later Eve were to “serve and keep” (Gen. 2:15), that is,...
by afladmin | Jul 1, 2025
By: The Rev. Prof. Stephen Noll In Uganda, the Lord’s Prayer reads: “Give us this day our daily food,” the last word translating the vernacular mmere, which means staple food (http://www.ugpulse.com/heritage/matooke-buganda-s-mmere/539/ug.aspx). In some regions, mmere...
by afladmin | Jun 25, 2025
By: The Rev. Prof. Stephen Noll Recently having the opportunity to visit a large chapel on a military facility, I learned a unique lesson about habits and expectations. There was a great distance between the Altar and the first pew of the congregation and the...
