Two Tragic Words
In Acts 26, Paul, under sentence of death, is giving his conversion account before King Agrippa. It is passionate and powerful, moving the King to utter these tragic words, “Almost Thou persuadest me to be a Christian.” Each of us faces a crossroads in our lives. We can decide whether to confess our sins and […]
Love on a Bloody Highway
The parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10 speaks deeply to me. Multiple readings brought
a consciousness about the traveler on the Bloody Way, the name given to that dangerous
stretch between Jerusalem and Jericho.
The Greatest Miracle
Where are the miracles of today? “Why don’t we see them,” people say. Like when the angel shut the Lion’s mouth in his den, and Daniel lived even though betrayed by men. Like the plagues God sent to set the Israelites free. What about the big miracles, like the parting of the Red Sea? Remember […]
THE ENCOUNTER
The sun hung like a blazing inferno in the sky. It’s heat burned my skin and my anger turned against its intensity. I always came alone to Jacob’s well at midday, when the heat was most miserable. Why? Because, for me, there was safety in that misery. Fewer wagging tongues prattling their judgment against me. […]
Marriage The Agreement
“And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no […]