The shepherds were always thought of as “N’er do well” kind of folks. To the best of our understanding, you were a shepherd if you couldn’t do anything else. You were a shepherd if you needed to hide out from the authorities because the flocks were being moved around quite...
To all who are connected with the different social medias, the latest issue has to do with our “Duck Dynasty” friends, particularly the father of the whole clan, Phil Robertson, who has been censured by a certain television company for his remarks about “human sexuality issues.” There has been a...
“Go, and tell John what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them.” (Matthew 11:4) This time of year is filled with such imaginative opposites. We’re...
This passage, as many of you know, is a favorite of mine when it comes to saying prayers. For me, it is quite appropriate in many, many situations, so, I use it a lot. It is appropriate to pray this once more – for the gathering we had last evening...
Pilate said, “So you are a king?” Jesus responded, “You say I am a king…” (John 18:37) It was written (much to the chagrin of the Sanhedrin) upon a sign and hung over Jesus’ head at the top of his cross. It said, “This is the King of the Jews.” ...
We know the answer to this question from a parable of our Lord Jesus. “Whenever you did it to the least of these people, you were doing it to Me.” The past two weeks and the next week, we are challenging everyone with this kind of message. Did you know...
“James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ….Greetings.” (James 1:1) Who is James, the author of the book of James? There are about five different possibilities; scholarship and history seems to think he is Jesus’ brother had named James. (See Matthew 13:55-56) If this guy IS the brother...
Isn’t this a contradiction of terms? Isn’t what we’re supposed to do is hate enemies and love those who are our friends? Doesn’t that make more sense? It doesn’t sound too rational. Or, maybe the rationale is that in the old saying, “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer,”...
