Faith Without Works is Dead
“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the wor...
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The Great Refusal
The Gospel of Matthew 19:16-26 At that time, a young man came up to Jesus, kneeling and saying, “Good Teacher, what good deed must I do, to have eternal l...
How to Forgive
Just like last week we need to back up a few verses to put this passage in the proper context. Starting with verse 21 Peter asks Jesus how many times we are to...
The Essential Faith
The Gospel of Matthew 17:14-23 At that time, a man came up to Him and kneeling before Him said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he...
Miracles Are All Around Us
The Gospel of Matthew 14:14-22 At that time, Jesus saw a great throng; and he had compassion on them, and healed their sick. When it was evening, the disciples ...
Those Pesky Pharisees
Read John 9:1-38 A long time ago, in a writing class I was in, the teacher said that every good story has a hero and an antagonist. In the Gospel story ...
Be One of God’s Miracles
These last few weeks the news has been filled with tragic circumstances. Not that the news is not always, or perhaps it just seems that way, filled with bad ne...
Chosen to Serve
Since Easter, each day, we have been reading from the book of Acts. I have said before that it is called the book of Acts, or Actions, not the book of sitting ...
Christ is Risen! Now What?
For me, the day after Easter is a lot like the day after Christmas, lots to clean up. Our modern culture tends to treat these big holidays as one-day events an...
The Sacrifice of Abraham
In previous essays, I asked you, dear readers, to meditate on the cost of the cross. The cross of Jesus had a cost, and each of us must think about what that c...