Gospel ⁽⁶⁰⁾

Matthew 16:13–20; Acts 11:1–18; 2 Corinthians 11:16–30 Peter appears to have been the first one to put it all together. He declared that Jesus was the Messiah. We often look back at Peter, thinking, “Well, that was obvious!” There were actually a number of people…

Ecclesiastes 3:16–4:3; Job 3:1–26 (read online ⧉) Let’s be honest, Ecclesiastes is not the most uplifting book of the bible. In many respects, it can be a bigger downer than the story of Job. Both books are generally put under (along with Proverbs) the category…

Matthew 9:18–26; Mark 5:21–43; Luke 8:40–56 (read online ⧉) People often use scripture to justify certain things, or at least state that whatever “this” is, it is nothing new. One of those is a thought that the woman in today's Scriptures had been bleeding due…

John 17:1–11; Ephesians 1:17–23 (read online ⧉) I thought how ironic it was that I’d dismissed dog meat as a cultural idiosyncrasy in Vietnam; that “who I am to judge?” extended to Islamic laws in Uzbekistan and Buddhist temple restrictions in Cambodia, but not to…

Psalm 109:1–7; John 5:41–47; Acts 18:9–18 (read online ⧉) Tar and feathering is a few hundred years old. They did not really use tar (usually), but other sticky substances. It also was not just feathers, but other garbage that people tossed at those being cast…