Galatians, one of the apostle Paul’s short letters, is brimming with life lessons for every follower of Jesus. One of the most important things we can realize as we draw out these lessons and apply them to our lives is that we all live in a slightly different culture and context. Things that are powerful…
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Faithfulness might be the most important quality you can have in life. In recent days, my mom celebrated her 90th birthday and, nearing his 93rd birthday, my Uncle left this earth for heaven. Reflecting on their lives, as well as my dad’s, I see the common thread of faithfulness as being all important. Often, we…
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Hosea is a book about unfaithfulness. It is a tragic portrait of unfaithfulness in life’s most important relationships: a husband and wife, and God and his people. We are Gomer When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom,…
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Sometimes, Jesus taught us some hard truths. In this passage, he reflects on a couple of current disasters, spinning some theological truth into them and correcting some false assumptions. Then he applies a parable that fits the situation – about repentance and fruit! There were some present at that very time who told him about…
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