This past Wednesday, the orbiting moon came on its cycle closest to the earth. It produced a bigger and brighter moon, something that the astronomers call a “super moon.” The Native Americans call it a “buck moon” because whenever this does occur, it occurs during the season that young male deer sprout their antlers.  In…

We’re talking about the end of times and the response of Jesus to the disciples’ question in Matthew 24:3: “What will be the sign of Your coming and the end of the age?”  What will the signs be? Are we really living in the last days? Is the second advent imminent? Is Jesus coming soon? …

Today, we’re moving on in our discussion of the book of Matthew. Those of you who have not been with us for a long time may not know that we began a study of the book of Matthew 22 years ago, in the year 2,000.We’ve now reached the 24th chapter, so we don’t go at…

The Woes of the Pharisees, which we’ve been studying for many months now in Matthew 23, are serious, judgmental, and condemnatory. We’re finally now concluding the study of the seven Woes. But as harsh as they are, Jesus concludes the Woes with an offer of grace, using the simile of a chicken covering her chicks…

As Michael has so eloquently put it, once you find grace, it seems like it’s everywhere. We need more discussion on some things I think we haven’t tied up yet. You may be tired of our discussion of grace, but it is our good fortune that grace is never tired of us. David keeps emphasizing…

Grace is one of the great mysteries of God. The widespread, ubiquitous reach of grace is manifest in God’s being the God of all mankind. And as we’ve been discussing this past few weeks, it has a mysterious transforming quality as well. We are changed, Paul says, by grace, in a moment, in the twinkling…