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She realized this was a parable for the incarnation. She writes, “So, if you have ears to hear, listen: when your grilled cheese is eaten...

Gabriel greets her as “favored one!” and asserts that the Lord is with her. It is the kind of statement that stops time. Luke says she...

Jesus says, “after that suffering,” when it seems like the very heavens are shaking, the Son of Man will come with great power and glory...

Matthew says in the previous chapter that his disciples came to him “privately” with questions about the end of the age: what will...

So when Paul thanks God, it is not just for what God is doing, but for the way the people there are responding! That’s a good reminder...

Jesus has entrusted his disciples with the good news. They must dare to act; they must share what they have been given; they must...

Gathering on the Mount of Olives is important. The prophet Zechariah looks forward to a day when the LORD will stand on the Mount of...

Instead, the first thing Jesus does is compliment the Pharisees and religious scholars as “competent teachers of God’s Law. You won’t go...

I think this is the perfect text for Reformation Sunday – not because it points to grace, or the majesty of God, or the authority of...

But, as the group of members who looked at the passage discovered, there is more to this than a trick! And probably more than you might...

The king is like God; the people who reject the invitation are like the Jews; the servants killed are the prophets; the city burned is...

Paul doesn’t actually have to choose between being an Israelite and following Christ. He can be both … and many in Philippi are both. But...

I think Paul is inviting the Philippians to join him in singing. (Us too!) Not just because the hymn tells of what God has done for us....

Letters are powerful tools –they can heal like a scalpel or destroy like a sledgehammer. Philippians 1:21-30 September 24, 2023 Dr. Todd...

Certain things are hard for us to forgive – power abused, trust betrayed, words used to cut or batter, cruel acts, cold-hearted neglect....

You’ve probably heard the phrase from the end of this passage – “wherever 2 or 3 are gathered …” – usually to indicate that even small...

Paul is evoking, for his listeners, the press of the crowds and the smell of green grass; he is alluding to Jesus’ statements about...

The truth is: we don’t keep the laws of Deuteronomy much anymore. We don’t care whether a person cannot reproduce, and we do not check...

So when they see him walking across the water during another storm, Peter tries to confirm what he thinks he sees. Is this the same one...

That’s the thing about scripture tales that we turn into pageants like this one – it can seem like a fairytale – like something Disney...