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Isaiah 40:3–11, Malachi 3:1–2, Luke 1:39–44, Luke 1:59–80 (read online ⧉) It has been said (by Christians, of course) that John the Baptist was the last Old Testament prophet. By that, they meant that Jesus (and his life, death, resurrection, and the subsequent baptism of…

Psalm 122, Isaiah 32:1–20, Ezekiel 37:26–28 (read online ⧉) There was a (awful) Superman movie in the ’80s called the Quest for Peace. In it, Superman takes care of the bad guy (of course) and takes care of (i.e., eliminates) all the nuclear weapons (which…

Luke 19:1–10, 1 John 4:10, Romans 8:22–28 (read online ⧉) You may or may not have heard that a famous person has publicly proclaimed that he has “found” Jesus Christ. Many Christians have not accepted this person’s conversion. It’s not as if this is a…

Matthew 6:25–34, Romans 13:11–14:1, Galatians 3:19–28 (read online) Have you ever put on clothes, whether someone else’s or at the store, and say, “that is not me?” There are a number of shows about clothes, and a lot of them are about what the clothes…

1 Samuel 2:1–10, Job 36:1–4, 2 Peter 1:3–8 (read online) Knowledge is power, so it is said. One of the great gifts of the Enlightenment was indeed the removal of knowledge from the monopoly of the church. Knowledge, when freed from the shackles of human…