So, eighteen years is a long time, bent over, suffering, for eighteen years. Then there’s Jesus. Maybe she always went to synagogue on Sabbath. Maybe she was there that Sabbath…
Fire? Division, not peace? Hypocrites? Why does Jesus have to say such things? I mean, I suppose I could just skip all those things he says like what we just…
I pastored a church in Illinois, right out of seminary. A fellow pastor in that presbytery served two congregations. Those of you who remember Rev. Swinney remember that sort of…
Christians have a talent for reshaping the Gospel. Paul warns against this. The reshaping is always the result of good intentions. Christians worry about the growth of the Church, which…
Millions want to know God. Knowing God isn’t easy. There is so much around us and within to distract us, deflect us. That desire is still there, though. What is…
We don’t tend to get all excited about a doctrine of the Church. Just to use the word doctrine sort of begins to kill the joy of the Living Word,…
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…
I never took George Burns to be an especially religious man. I was surprised, then, to hear this bit of religious wisdom from none other than George Burns, who said,…
“You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” Life happens, and we wonder what God is up to. What is He thinking? There is…