Then they sang a song…

Matthew 26:30 “ When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.” As Matthew 26 begins it is two days before PASSOVER. Two days before the entire nation of Israel will pause to remember… the work of God to redeem them from Egypt. Exodus 12 gives us the account of the…

Advent begins 2025

Advent is a time of looking forward, not in the past. Of course we remember that Christ came as a baby, a child, a man to live and die to demonstrate His power over life and death. He came to demonstrate that life in Jesus is about resurrection power. We are people of the resurrection!…

I don’t want to be a Pharisee

It’s an interesting parallel. In the time of Jesus, following the exit of the Greeks from Israel and region the Pharisees and Sadducees worked to pull out of Jewish culture the infiltration of Greek culture with a call to return to Holiness and worship of the one true God, Yahweh. It was a call that…