Jesus intentionally delays going to Lazarus' sickbed because he wants to wait until he's dead so that he can heal him. Knowing he's going to heal him doesn't mean he takes his friend's death lightly though – Jesus is deeply affected and moved...
To be "in the Spirit", according to St. Paul in Romans 8:1-11, means living under the final verdict of not guilty, living a life of fulfillment of God's righteous requirement, and living with the guarantee of future resurrection. Readings and sermon were...
The final chapter in the story of the Bible (in other words – the story of human history) is God coming to live with his people on the new earth. God's goal was never to take a disembodied people up to live with him in heaven, but to come and live with us on...
Jesus conversation with the Samaritan woman should never have happened – it just wasn't appropriate. But Jesus ignored the appropriate to rescue the lost person hidden behind the cultural barriers that imprisoned her and kept her from redemption. He does the...
In the garden of Eden, the Enemy tempts Adam and Eve with the lie that he can give them godlike power. In the wilderness, Satan tells the same lie to Jesus. But Jesus resisted the temptation, reversing the curse of Adam and Eve's fall, and providing a way for us...
One of our most basic assumptions in the West is that each person should be allowed to judge for themselves what’s right and wrong. This, along with the companion belief that God – if he does exist – does not interact with our world means that anything...
