Who do you think the world would be better off without? It’s a tough question, isn’t it, if we’re really going to be honest? Though, it doesn’t seem too tough of a question for James and John.   Jesus has set his face toward Jerusalem – a strange phrase that Luke uses here that seems […]

At the time we gathered last week, many of us had heard that there had been a shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, but the details about who the shooter was, and why he was there, and who he targeted were, for the most part, unknown.   But we know now.   We’ve spent another […]

[click here for video] I’m going to start again today with something you’ve heard me say before, and that I’m pretty sure you’ll hear me say often in the future: I’m always glad that the Bible is honest in how it portrays the lives of God’s people. And today we have some real doozies to […]

[Click here for video] There’s a literary technique that can be helpful in interpreting Biblical texts, namely, that one can come to understand a character through the first thing that character says. In the case of the Gospel of Luke, the first thing we hear from Jesus is when he’s 12 years old and he […]