Gospel of John: Grave Illness

What God does is always a reflection of Godโ€™s character and in keeping with Godโ€™s glory, and all this is displayed in the lives of every believer. Those who believe God see Godโ€™s glory in everyday circumstances.

Gospel of John: Faith on the Line

We might have heard other people tell us to โ€œtake it to Jesusโ€ and now we are wondering just exactly what does โ€œtaking it to Jesusโ€ mean?

Gospel of John: A Wedding

Jesus wanted these disciples to really know him, because then they would be able to trust him, as he drew them ever deeper and farther into the mysteries he was going to reveal.

Prophetic Heredity

the most important name given to Jesus is the one Matthew used in his genealogy, in verse 1, verse 16, verse 17 and verse 18: Christ, Messiah, the anointed one.

Divine Heredity

When I was a young girl, there was an enormous social stigma attached to having a baby when you werenโ€™t married. You got sent away to extended family, had the baby in secret, started another life, or gave the baby up for adoption, very privately. Children raised out of wedlock didnโ€™t have the same legal rights as children born to or adopted by a married couple.

Royal Heritage

But, if Matthew had ransacked the whole Old Testament, heโ€™d have been hard pressed to find four more unlikely candidates for the Messiahโ€™s genealogy than the following women.

Christmas Series

Beginning Monday, Grace and Peace will present seven posts on Jesus' heritage and birth, bringing the nativity narrative through Matthew's gospel.

The Midwife

My church, New Hope Chapel, Arnold MD, is finishing up a four-part Advent series called "We Were There." Each member of the teaching team took a character from Jesus' birth narrative and told the tale from that perspective. I got "The Midwife"