Dear Friends, There will be no message next week. The next message for Monday, October 9 will celebrate the 19th anniversary of the Word of Grace messages. . . . There are days that close in like a cave around you. Days when you are unjustly attacked, oppressed, and feeling down. Days when your enemies
Dear Friends, There were some present who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked them, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all the other Galileans? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish
Dear Friends, The Sea of Galilee is 685 feet below sea level, the lowest freshwater body of water in the world. It sits in the Jordan Rift, a fault zone with steep hills and mountains all around it. The Mediterranean Ocean is only 27 miles to the west. West winds blow off the Ocean and
Dear Friends, I collected another birthday this weekend. I have a lot of them now, enough to make comparisons, though none of them are rejects. Birthdays don’t fare so well in Scripture. There are only two birthday celebrations mentioned and in one Pharaoh hanged his chief baker and in the other King Herod decapitated John
Dear Friends, This is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed and did not deny it, but confessed, “I am not the Messiah.” And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the