It doesn’t exactly feel as if my demons have submitted yet, but maybe they just want me to think they haven’t. The truth is they’re done. They’ve lost. They aren’t…
Who’s up for a fifteen hour walk? It’s about fifty miles from the Sea of Galilee to the city of Tyre, going northwest. That’s almost to Eagle Lake. The walk…
What is world-born is world-bound; what is Spirt-born is heaven-bound. With Jesus, the spirit-born are called to live differently from the world-born. Scottish pastor and biblical scholar William Barclay…
Second Thessalonians is short. When I first read through the Bible, it was a real relief finally to get to books that were two pages long. Though brief, this letter…
Well, okay . . . so that’s a lot. Scholars regard Paul’s two letters to the believers in Thessalonika as his earliest. The church there was concerned about the end,…
None of us are immune from the Us/Them mentality. Our interpretation of Scripture, in a way, permits such thinking: Jesus tells us there will be a final accounting, where those…
Well, nobody likes to be called a dog. We tend to be very attached to our pets, yet no one likes to be called a dog. When will Jesus say…