Pastor’s Blog (Page 4)

As you well know, every kingdom has its currency. Long before the Romans had the denarius and the Greeks their drachma, any sovereign nation worth its salt has insisted on its own currency. The currency or coin usually highlights significant features of that nation with an image, inscription, or…

The sun has now set for good this Friday. Strangest thing happened earlier this afternoon: complete darkness for about three hours, then light again for a while before sunset. In all my years there’s never been a day quite like this one. Three men crucified together—that’s not unique. Neither was the soldiers’ disparaging and brutality of the condemned—I’ve come to expect…

In the opening pages of his gospel, Matthew informs us that the King entered our world as an infant. Matthew contrasts Him with that very small man who called himself Herod the Great. Remember the despot who was so threatened by what the magi said that he slaughtered all the babies in and around Bethlehem? Fast-forward from His infancy to the triumphal entry into…

Gaza…! and Jerusalem…! Two cities at war, headlining the news! Sometime back, the names of these two cities—Gaza and Jerusalem—were uttered by an angel. In the same breath! “Philip, arise and go south to the road that descends from Jerusalem to Gaza” (Acts 8:26). Things were different then. There wasn’t a war going on. Or was there? When Philip arrived, he found a…