Paul and Silas, still in Philippi, encounter a girl, a slave girl. That wasn’t unusual. This slave girl is possessed; a spirit is in her, that, as spirits do, reveals…
Before Paul and Timothy arrive in Philippi, they had tried to make Jesus known in a couple other places. Luke tells us “the Spirit did not let them” (16:6, 7). …
None of us are immune from the Us/Them mentality. Our interpretation of Scripture, in a way, permits such thinking: Jesus tells us there will be a final accounting, where those…
There are many place names in the Bible. If we had been born and raised in that part of the world, these names would be like saying Odessa, Laredo, Amarillo,…
Saul didn’t know Jesus. Blind, thrown down in the dust there on the road, Saul calls the one speaking to him Lord (9:5): whoever is speaking to him has authority…
I never took George Burns to be an especially religious man. I was surprised, then, to hear this bit of religious wisdom from none other than George Burns, who said,…
They went into the tomb. They knew they would have to. Could you? They were trying to prepare themselves. They see the stone rolled away and don’t know what to…
Where did Peter get a sword? How long had he been carrying that around? He has it with him, that night, there in the garden. He had a bad feeling:…
“You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” Life happens, and we wonder what God is up to. What is He thinking? There is…
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the…