With this coming weekend’s messages coming from Mark 13, I thought I’d reprise a post from late last year on that passage: When reviewing the thirteenth chapter of Mark’s gospel two important issues are observed. First, there is a question about the timing of things to come. Secondly, there is a question about the signs READ MORE
Jerusalem
Climbing the Dusty Trail
It was that time of year for the elderly priest from Judea’s hills to join ranks with the other priests of his division and travel to the glorious city of Jerusalem. With all of the gumption he could muster, gumption only the younger ones were expected to have, he placed a tender hand on Elizabeth’s READ MORE
“She Took No Thought”
While reading through the oft-neglected book of Lamentations, one stumbles across a notion worthy of some attention. Lamentations 1:9—addressing God’s judgment of the idol-stricken city of Jerusalem—says it this way: “she took no thought of her future; therefore her fall is terrible.” Indeed, it is so. The citizens of Jerusalem daily repudiated God’s merciful calls READ MORE