The Apostle Paul wrote three Pastoral Letters to two of his spiritual sons, Timothy and Titus. Having spent time with Paul on his missionary journeys, he sent them to lead…
It was on Mother’s Day in 1994, which that year also happened to be on May 8, that I called my mother. Lauri and I and our sons had recently…
What is the origin of human life? According to the second chapter of Genesis, human life began when God took some dirt, shaped it, and breathed life into it. What…
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…