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…
Hosanna! Lord, save us, please! That’s what hosanna means: save us! Make your praises heard, and pray that God would save His remnant (31:7). Did you notice the order of…
I will extol the Lord (111:1). “Lift up your voice, now lift up your voice! Great is the Lord!” Extol. Praise. Maybe we don’t spend enough time here praising God,…
All Glory, Laud and Honor Christians have been singing “All Glory, Laud and Honor” since 1861. The words, though, go back to the ninth century, the 800s, to a period…
Some people get hung up on 144,000. John helps us not to be concerned about that. “I looked,” he tells us, “and there before me was a great multitude…
God shall supply all your need. I never grow tired of hearing that. I rejoice when I hear that! Those words speak in the emptiest parts of me and…
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…