The king who had entered Jerusalem triumphantly on what we refer to as Palm Sunday was by Friday evening a corpse in a tomb. Both his followers and his opponents…
About 160 years before Jesus was born, there lived in Israel a Jewish man named Judah Maccabeus. During his time the Seleucid Empire controlled the city of Jerusalem. Judah gathered…
My favorite cartoon characters are Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin is a six-year old boy and Hobbes is his stuffed tiger who comes to life in Calvin’s imaginary world. One of…
I invite you to join me in Paul’s first letter to Timothy, chapter six, verses six to ten. The background to this passage is the false teachers in the church…
Last Sunday we read from Paul’s first letter to Timothy while asking the question, “For whom should we pray?” Paul’s response to that question, found in the first four verses…
This morning we begin with the Old Testament story of Jonah, a prophet of God. You can read the story in the book of Jonah and fill in the details;…