When Jesus forbids swearing falsely, he isn’t referring to cursing, but to making deceptive promises. Human beings are experts in the fine...
Give us great wisdom to show others that we care.
Remember the game where people sit in a circle and one person begins by whispering a phrase into the next person’s ear...
Breaking news! Sexual purity is very, very important to Jesus. Modern culture may be pretty relaxed about it but not Jesus. And...
We all get angry. And of course, some things should make us angry! Injustice, abuse, deceit, betrayal. But anger comes at a...
In Jesus’ day everybody knew that the scribes and Pharisees took the scripture more seriously than anyone else. The problem was that...
The existence of the Bible boggles the mind. Over a two thousand year span of history, some forty different authors, many of whom had never met, writing in wide ranging literary forms from history...
Thank you for teaching me about the dangers of loving money and for protecting me against its lure.
When Jesus said that he came to “fulfill the law and the prophets,” he meant it—literally. He came to fulfill the scriptures...
Light! It has captured the curiosity of scientists, philosophers, theologians—and common people like you and me. The scientific community continues to make...
Remember, regardless of what you see when you look in the mirror, Jesus wants you to know that you are his twenty-four-carat disciple.
Jesus has been describing blessings that come to those who hand over the reins of life to his control. It’s certainly a...
There is so little peace in the world. Sometimes it seems so full of simmering hostility and rage. It’s even deadly for...
Jesus begins his Sermon on the Mount with a description of eight provocative blessings. If you were to think of these blessings...
Mercy is equal parts forgiveness and compassion. Mercy is God’s chief attribute. Do a quick Google search of “the Lord is merciful,”...
We all know what it’s like to be hungry for food or thirsty for drink. These pangs and cravings are part of the body’s miraculous early warning system about the essential things we...
Meekness? As a word it’s not widely used. It sounds like some form of weakness until we read in the Bible that Moses was the meekest man who ever lived. ...
The Old Testament ends with a curse!
“Blessed” is Jesus’ first word in the Sermon on the Mount. The first time the word “bless”...
Most people would be anxious to get to the meat of Jesus’ teaching, but let’s not skip too quickly over this introductory...
