When Jesus comes into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday the crowds gather around him and chant his praises, excited that the one true king has finally arrived. And although some of his opponents try to make them stop, thinking that he has overstepped his bounds, the victory of...
Luther expands the “father and mother” of the fourth commandment to also mean “other authorities.” His reasoning for this is that all human leadership flows out of the leadership and responsibility God gives to parents over their children: parents cannot teach their...
Against the backdrop of unrighteous King Zedekiah's reign, God reiterates his promise that he would one day execute justice and righteousness in the whole world, and that he would bring about this world of righteousness through the Branch of David – the one...
In Psalm 50 God criticizes his people for believing that by offering him sacrifices they could manipulate him into favoring them. Instead, they should acknowledge that God doesn't need their offerings since he owns everything in the whole world, stop believing...
Jude addresses a church in which false teaching has begun eating away the church's testimony from within, and cultural pressures to accommodate paganism squeezes the church from without. In this situation Jude encourages the church to remain faithful to Jesus...
