Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, atheist, agnostic, Jew, Christian—“the whole world [is] held accountable to God” (3:19). It’s God’s world. Christians aren’t the only ones living on God’s earth nor the only…
“All under the power of sin” is not a place we want to begin. It isn’t very flattering. But we can’t buy our way out or even work our way…
My mother-in-law grew up in The Bronx, attending, as I found out several years back, a Presbyterian church. In the same neighborhood were many Jews, observant Jews. “Did you know…
We have all been inconvenienced. Hopefully, it hasn’t been at midnight. But, you know, any midnight call . . . it’s coming from someone who feels as if there isn’t…
Now back once more on the Jewish side of the Sea of Galilee, Jesus returns to a place he had previously visited. Luke does not tell us exactly where these…
Why did the disciples cross the lake? To get to the other side. Only, as it turns out, that wasn’t so simple as they had thought when they set out. …
We gather. Jesus goes. Where does Jesus go? Where people need to hear the Word. He goes where the Word is needed. Let’s follow. He goes where people need a…
As we find out elsewhere in the New Testament, not every Roman soldier was from Italy. The centurion—like a captain in the army, over around one hundred soldiers—the centurion may…
So here is the sum of it. Jesus has been describing a way to live governed by God’s principles, life God’s way, a heart being filled with God. This happens…
I’ve got some work to do on myself, still have work to do. Life has worked me over, and still does. God is reworking me, praise be to His name!…