You don’t really know what is in someone’s mind until it comes out in words, (unless, of course, they are a pantomime artist). Jesus was a reality in the mind of God, but we didn’t really know it for sure until the Father sent the Son as “the Word made flesh.” […]

We’ve just witnessed the nation’s worst shooting in history. Thirty-three students and faculty killed at Virginia Tech in one morning. Repeatedly I heard students and others saying in interviews, “I just want to forget it” and “I just want to get back to normal.” It’s not likely to happen. As far as […]

It is so easy to prize the peaceful times of private, direct communion with God. The disciples of Jesus had such an experience on the Mount of Transfiguration (Luke 9:27-36). So satisfied with the feeling was Peter that he suggested building three tabernacles and staying on the mountain top – while the routine of life […]

Never were soldiers, in any army, in any time of history, given a more useless command than that given by Pontius Pilate to unnamed Roman soldiers, posted at the door of a borrowed tomb, outside the city of Jerusalem. These poor soldiers were commanded to secure the tomb. No one was to get […]

Yesterday was April Fools Day. For many people it was no big deal. They have three hundred sixty-five of them each year. The Bible cautions us to “walk carefully, not as fools (Eph. 5:15).” Some folks think they can do whatever they choose to do whenever they choose to do it. […]