Sometimes faith shows itself at its greatest when one just goes to sleep. I remember the story of a missionary who was stranded somewhere in a dangerous part of Africa. They knew there were violent thieves around and they feared for their life, but they could do...
There are no commas in Greek, there are really, really long sentences, and it sometimes is a problem. A simple comma can change everything. Sometimes it is significant, sometimes it doesn’t change much. The other day I decided to look up something in Greek in...
“You are the salt of the earth. If salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?” In a land of refrigeration, we fully underestimate the value of salt. It meant life. I preserved food which was essential and was so valuable that it was often...
I like hands. They say a lot about a person. Are they smooth or calloused? Are the nails perfectly painted or chipped from hard work? Are they wrinkled and tanned or smooth and white?So I looked at hands in Scripture. In particular at the hands of Jesus. Perhaps...
Random thought, but when Jesus mandated his disciples to take the gospel to “the ends of the earth,” it was at that time that they did not know that the earth was round.
