Some young people leave home and never look back. Once you leave, you can’t go back because home isn’t there anymore. My family and I…
Have you ever been ready to put something off? Why do today what can wait until tomorrow. Our work doesn’t vanish. We go to sleep thinking about it; we…
Simeon and Anna are the closest thing Jesus has to grandparents, and what grandparents! Both are at the Temple. Though it was my parents who first took me to…
Twice in as many days, John the Baptist points to Jesus: “Look, the Lamb of God!” (1:29, 36). Lambs had one purpose in Israel’s relationship with God. We delight in…
What a glorious, happy day that will be, when people seek out the church, seeking God and knowledge of God. Some people do just show up; they find us. This…
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). …
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…
These words of Isaiah are a poem, a song, a prophecy of hope. The hope is for Jerusalem; Jerusalem, here, is not simply a city, a spot on the map. …
It would have been hard not to be impressed by the temple Herod built in Jerusalem. It was built to impress. Some of you have had the opportunity to travel…
In the Gospel accounts, people are always being amazed by Jesus. Even Pontius Pilate is amazed at Jesus, though not for quite the same reasons as others. We hear this…