David Buttrick, who through his teaching and writing has shaped a generation of Protestant preachers, admits he is not "a guild-approved" biblical scholar. But he here puts forward a homiletic method ...
How can we say thank you Lord for all you have done for us? Simply, say "thank you Father and Lord Jesus." We have homes up there in the wide yonder and an eternity with God. Can we ask God to keep us ...
She should be stoned to death, her accusers say. In John 8:2-12, Jesus' opponents bring to him a woman they claim was caught in adultery, cite legal justification for executing adulterers, and ask ...
Some words take on expanded meanings over time. It wasn’t long ago, for example, that only birds tweeted. Other words develop narrower meanings. Consider the word business, for example, which today ...
It’s been some time ago but I heard one of the most powerful sayings a friend of mine used to say often right before he was about to be installed as the new pastor of his own church. “When Satan ...
Probably no film in history has been written about as much before its public debut as Mel Gibson’s new movie about the last days of Jesus. Many of the critics and scholars who have seen it screened in ...
One of the odder moments of Pope Francis’ recent pilgrimage to the Holy Land was an exchange with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The subject was what language Jesus spoke. According to ...
For someone who grew up when and how I did, the question of Jesus really mystified many of my so called friends, when it came to my newest super hero. You see, if you ...
A week ago I was taking a cool evening dip in Lake Ossipee near Freedom, N.H., just before gathering with other campers on the sandy beach to sing around the campfire at beautiful Camp Calumet. We ...
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