One of my favorite stories in the Gospels is Jesus cleansing the Temple. This magnificent structure built by Zerubbabel and enlarged and beautified by Herod the Great, was called to be a place of prayer for all nations. Yet what the religious people of Jesus...
Can you imagine pouring something worth 300 Denarii (an average years income) over someones head ? Well that is exactly what happens in this story. A woman who the Gospel of John identifies as Mary pours this very costly perfume that the Gospel of Mark...
To have a monkey on ones back means that you are carrying a burden or a problem that you find difficult to get rid of, and this is the story of a man who certainly had a monkey. If you have been saved more than one...
I have always loved this story, for several reasons. First the two blind man one named Bartimaeus (we know from the account given in Mark and Luke) asked for mercy, there is great power in God’s mercy. There is a famous prayer called “The Jesus...
Jesus was traveling with the disciples to Jerusalem when he pulls them aside and begins to explain to them what his last days on earth would look like. Then the mother of James and John approached him on behalf of her two sons who she...
This is one of the saddest stories in the Bible, the rich young ruler. At first he seems to have a spiritual appetite when he inquires of Jesus about obtaining eternal life. But when it gets down to the nitty gritty , he walks away...
Jesus was traveling from Galilee to Judea, when he encountered a group of Pharisees who began testing him. As they were in dialogue with Jesus a group of pesky children happened along wanting of all things to sit on the Masters lap. The righteous 12...
Normally as a church we participate in the Daniel fast for the 21 days leading up to Good Friday. This year I am asking each person to seek God on what form of fasting they would choose....
Once upon a time Jerusalem was known as the Jewel of the middle east, the perfection of beauty. She was the daughter of Zion, the center of the earth as the prophet Ezekiel would say (Ezekiel 5:5). At some point she began to embrace other lovers...
The greatest sermon ever preached, by the greatest preacher who ever spoke on earth, sacred rhetoric from the lips of the second person of the Trinity. Jesus ascends the mountain on the shores of Galilee to explain “a way of righteous living”. Unlike when Moses...