26-Jan-20 I Corinthians 1:10-19 They weren’t paying much attention to the gospel. Instead, they’d gotten themselves wrapped up in a fight. I suppose we could say that this was the beginning of a long and inglorious tradition. Churches have been fighting for over two thousand years, and in spite of what the Apostle Paul counsels […]
Month: January 2020
God Is Faithful
19-Jan-20 I Corinthians 1:1-9 There are days when my sincere desire is to end it all in the same way that the Apostle Paul had hoped to end it. He looked forward, with deep and eager anticipation, to our Lord’s return, and he believed, with all of his heart that he would witness that return […]
A New Hope Out Of Darkness And Death
12-Jan-20 Matthew 2:7-23 The wise men, by far, are the most mysterious characters in the whole Christmas Story. And that is why the wise men are so interesting to me. This mystery, though, ends horribly and tragically with the deaths of all of the little boys living in Bethlehem at the time of Herod’s mental […]
Those Mysterious Wise Men
05-Jan-20 Matthew 2:1-12 They weren’t kings, they didn’t visit Jesus on the night that he was born, and there probably were not three of them. There. That should shatter at least some of the myths that we have about the wise men. Unfortunately, much of what we do tend to believe about the wise men […]
A Mother’s Treasure Chest
29-Dec-19 Luke 2:1-20 Taken without a whole lot of thought, or without any serious pondering, the story of Christmas can be kind of cute and even warmly romantic. It is a story about a pretty peasant girl, madly in love with a young tradesman, full of hopes and dreams of spending a long and fulfilling […]