As Jesus continues His ministry, He encounters a most unlikely candidate for the Kingdom: a woman of Samaria. The meeting wasn’t by chance, however. I...
There were two factions baptizing in Judea. Both stressed purity and getting right with God, but one group grew as the other diminished, because only ...
A light came into the world, and that Light was a true and accurate revelation of God. In fact, the Light was the whole of God contained in human form...
The world into which Jesus came was not a neutral world. It was a world deeply affected by sin, and every aspect of human behavior had been affected b...
The lifting up of the Son of Man on an old rugged cross is grounded in the love of God. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son...
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son.” It’s probably the most familiar passage in the Bible. God’s sacrifice is the basis for our fai...
In the Garden, a serpent leads a woman to sin, and mankind to a certain death. As the Israelites wandered in the wilderness, serpents came among them ...
In the Garden, a serpent leads a woman to sin, and mankind to a certain death. As the Israelites wandered in the wilderness, serpents came among them ...
The temple was the center of Jewish life. It was the place where God was most present on earth. But, with the coming of the Messiah, that would no lon...
Jesus came merely as a guest to a wedding in Cana. He and His disciples blended in with the others invited to the banquet, and no one really took noti...