Heads Up

The second miracle in Matthew 8 is another story of a healing, but it adds two elements not present in the first story. First, it is about a Roman centurion, which means it is about a Gentile. This indicates that the Gospel Jesus was preaching is for the entire world and not for Jewish people…

Why Jesus does not heal. Anyone who takes time to compare the four Gospels, especially the first three, the Synoptic Gospels, will notice two things about their arrangement of material. First, there is a rough chronological order. Each tells about Jesus’ baptism by John somewhere at the beginning; proceeds with accounts of Christ’s public teaching…

The last of Jesus’ illustrations in His Sermon on the Mount contrasts two builders, a wise builder and one who is foolish.

“I fear for the future of authentic faith in our country. We live in a time when the common man in our country is thoroughly influenced by the current climate in which the cultural and educational elite propagates an anti-Christian message,” so wrote William Wilberforce in 1797.

This past Monday, January 21 we remembered Martin Luther King Jr. and his effort for equality for all people regardless of skin color or any other human distinction. I listened as his most famous speech was re-read. It is always moving to hear those words of Dr. King uttered again.

On January 6, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed Congress on the state of the war in Europe. Much of what he said that day has been forgotten. But at the close of his address, he said that he looked forward “to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.” He named them: freedom of…