Paul takes much of the first chapter of Romans to articulate the trouble: it’s a big trouble and deeply troubling. It has caused all of us all kinds of trouble. …
This last Sunday of the year and next Sunday, we will be hearing some hard things: hard to hear, perhaps hard to accept. The starting point is this: why is…
So, the Pharisees always manage to surprise me. I often wonder, had I been alive at the time, whether I would have been a Pharisee. I think I probably would…
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!…
Scottish pastor and biblical scholar of the previous century W. Graham Scroggie points here to one of the key, constant questions about Jesus: from where is he getting this authority? …
Isaiah was unsparing in pointing to the God-defying behaviors and choices all too common all around him in his day. What we mostly remember about Isaiah, I suppose, are his…
“It will always help us if we regard this world as organized not for our comfort but for our training.”[1] So says our friend William Barclay. The old saying was…
Jesus has been telling those who want to be his followers about the sort of life they are to live. He has been telling them about the disposition of the…
When Jesus is asked to give a sign, so that he might be believed, so that what he is saying might be accepted as true and authoritative, Jesus responds that…
I wish they had been walking by a field, maybe at sowing time. As it is, “they were walking along the road” (9:57). It’s a dirt road. The road is…