Jesus came to call people to follow, to believe and follow: only believe, just follow. If they weren’t sure whether they believed, Jesus told them to follow and see. “Trust…
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven” (7:21). That hurts. Does that mean that you can believe you’re being a faithful follower all your…
Child of the ‘70s that I am, Star Wars was a big event in my young life, especially the spectacular climax: how could those big, bright torpedoes go down those…
It’s not judging when one person says to another: that’s a really rotten thing you just did. It’s not judging to say you’re hurting our relationship and you’re hurting yourself. …
Without food, we won’t last long. If we understand that, how much more people in the days of Jesus, when crop failures and famines were real things? Though the Roman…
It must have been around 1980 or so. I was sitting in a theater watching a movie and eating Jujyfruits—turns out they’re still making those. I noticed an ad on…
“It will always help us if we regard this world as organized not for our comfort but for our training.”[1] So says our friend William Barclay. The old saying was…
Jesus has been telling those who want to be his followers about the sort of life they are to live. He has been telling them about the disposition of the…
It’s Scottish pastor, Bible student, and professor William Barclay, again, who writes of the ability to choose to be loving. We have this ability as a gift in Christ through…
Poor Jimmy Carter. You just know there’ll be trouble when you get interviewed for Playboy magazine. Why would anyone agree to that interview? Back in 1976, Carter mentioned—confessed—to the reporters…