Some of you may know Lou Reed’s song “Perfect Day.” At one point in the song, he repeats, four times—as if it’s a part of the song he wants us…
Tornadoes, hurricanes, fires—our lives can be turned upside down, so quickly, so completely. The news cameras are almost always there, after, on the scene, filming people carefully picking their way…
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…
Jesus and his disciples are celebrating, eating; it’s a joyful occasion: the one who brought life is with them. Lazarus who was dead is alive, through Jesus. Passover was near:…
For quite some time, Christians didn’t need to think very much about their faith and beliefs. Yes, sure, society and culture were fallen, but in impersonal ways that didn’t touch…
God sends the people He is setting free through the parted waters of the sea. The Egyptians are in hot pursuit. God sends the waters rushing back down upon the…