God’s Word concludes with a beginning. It seems fitting to conclude our time with Luke, to conclude this liturgical year, with words from the beginning of Luke’s telling of the…
Ever hear of the Wheel of Fate? Does it turn on the same axle as the Wheel of Fortune? I’d like to buy an IOU. Fate, Fortune—something out of our…
Do you want to laugh? Do you want to cry? Maybe both? If you have come to this Presbyterian church from another expression of Christian faith, you probably have figured…
In Matthew’s timeline, Jesus has just returned from his time of temptation in the wilderness. We’ll get to that in about a month. In the meantime, John had been taken…
John didn’t look like a Messiah, didn’t act like a Messiah, but some thought that maybe he kind of spoke like a Messiah, so they wondered: Is John the Messiah? …
We hear this list of names at the beginning of this third chapter of Luke’s account, and we probably don’t think much about it. There are so many lists of…