What paved the way for Jesus to perform His first miracle? An invitation: “Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding” (John 2:2). Jesus had just been baptized three days prior to the wedding in Cana of Galilee. As He rose up out of the water, the...
For the past few weeks, my wife and I have been trying to catch a mouse in our kitchen. The unwelcome rodent managed to eat the peanut butter in the traps without setting them off. Each night, I would set traps in different ways, thinking a new technique might rid my...
Jeremiah 29:11: For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Do you have dreams? Things you want to accomplish in your life that seem out of reach? When those dreams align with His...
Recently, I finished the book Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels by J. Warner Wallace. Wallace, a now-retired Los Angeles homicide detective, shares his journey from atheism to faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ....
Jesus never ate a hamburger or a hot dog. So why does He talk about mustard so much? One of Jesus’ most famous and influential parables is that of the mustard seed. He relates the importance of this tiny seed in the gospel as recorded by Luke: Luke 17:5-6: And the...
Occasionally, my wife and I get a moment to sit down together and watch a movie. My tastes in film have narrowed in the recent years. Still, I listen to recommendations for movies, especially when they are coming from an unexpected source. One such film we...
On July 22, 2011 in Oslo, Norway, a deranged Anders Behring Breivik carried out a mass shooting at a summer camp, killing 69 people, mostly teens. He also killed eight people through a series of bombings around government buildings in Oslo that preceded the mass...
Matthew 19:24: "And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." The eye of the needle is not the loop of a needle. The eye of the needle was a small gate in one of the walls around...