Before Abraham, Jesus

Before Abraham, Jesus

Think of birth announcements you’ve received. They read something like this: Timothy and Mackenzie are pleased to announce the arrival of Zander Boris, weighing 7 lbs. 4 oz., at 19 ½ inches long. Or maybe this: Ethan and Mallory are thrilled that Morgann Esther showed...
From Prelude to Finale

From Prelude to Finale

If you were to begin watching an episode of TV’s ‘Mission Impossible’ three minutes and thirty seconds in (the tape has already self-destructed), you would have great difficulty understanding everything that was going on from that point forward. (My brother, Jerry,...
“Will you walk with me?”

“Will you walk with me?”

June 6, 1944 was a terrible, and costly, Allied invasion on the coast of France, with over 9,000 casualties. Despite the cost, it is considered the beginning of the end, the turning point of World War II. Many battles followed, with each Allied Forces win pushing back...
Oktoberfest in Church??

Oktoberfest in Church??

21st  Century culture, to followers of Jesus, is intense, Scripture-revealing and prophecy-fulfilling, and calls for us to dig deeply into Truth, not looking to the left or to the right. Martin Luther’s 16th Century lyrics (shockingly, back in the day, set to a...