To Skeptics
When you note how unlikely it is for a virgin to give birth for an angel to announce tidings of any kind for an infant to be Israel’s God incarnate I can only agree and marvel at this improbable day.
More About the Seven Last Words
I hope that my hymn cycle based on Christ’s Seven Last Words helps you reflect on Good Friday and Easter this year. If you’re from a church tradition that doesn’t have a service observing the Seven Last Words (like mine), here is some background about these sayings. They aren’t “words” per se, but the sayings [...]
Consider the Raven
Today I was reading one of my favorite (and most challenging) of Jesus’ teachings: do not worry. Here is what Leon Morris has to say about Luke 12:24: Jesus reinforces this [teaching] with an appeal to the ravens (or ‘crows’, Goodspeed, GNB), mentioned here only in the New Testament (they are the objects of God’s [...]
