Mark 1:1-20 Mark’s gospel opens with an evocation of the creation story of Genesis…
Luke 1:57-80 & Matthew 1:18-25 Today’s texts both tell of angelic messengers who come…
The word “wall” comes from the Old English weall & Anglian wall meaning…
lock-up also lockup: “detention cell for offenders,” 1838, perhaps short for earlier lock-up house;…
The word rest come from a late 14th century old french word resister meaning…
Less than 10 days until Christmas. There’s work to be done, and fires to…
The word exhaustion comes from the Latin work exhaustion meaning to drain out. It’s come…
Yeshua (יֵשׁוּעַ in Hebrew) was a common alternative form of the name Joshua in later books of the Hebrew…
Isaiah 35:1-10; Luke 1:47-55; Matthew 11:2-11 In his day of national defeat by…
Psalm 14 asserts Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt,…