The Stigma Mary Endured as the Mother of Our Lord
Gabriel’s Message that Permanently Altered Mary’s Young Life The angel Gabriel suddenly appeared to Mary, saying, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with […]
Category: Advent
From Beginning to End the Bible’s Storyline Features God Who Does the Impossible (Part 2)
This singular statement, “Now Sarai was barren; she had no child” (Genesis 11:30), one could reasonably affirm, situates much if not all […]
From Beginning to End the Bible’s Storyline Features God Who Does the Impossible (Part 1)
With our recent celebration of the Lord’s incarnation and our passage into a new year, it is fitting to reflect on God […]
Living the Christian Life in a Time when God Judges Our Nation by Giving Us Evil Governing Authorities (Part 6)
In the last installment of this series, I showed that the second and third petitions of the Lord’s Prayer—“let your dominion come” […]
Living the Christian Life in a Time when God Judges Our Nation by Giving Us Evil Governing Authorities (Part 5)
Thus far, this series concerning how we Christians ought to conduct ourselves when the governing authorities are evil and threaten harm upon […]
Living the Christian Life in a Time when God Judges Our Nation by Giving Us Evil Governing Authorities (Part 4)
It is entirely fitting and proper after considering Romans 13:1-7 in my last posting that it should be followed by a few […]
Barren Conception: God’s Appointed Foreshadow of A Virgin’s Conception of the Son of God—A Christmas Meditation
It is likely that most of us are so familiar with the Christmas story from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke that […]