Mark 13:1-23 An obvious but interesting thing about the false Christs our Lord mentions in our reading is that they all come after him....

Genesis 44 It’s easy to be a man of your word if you never have to keep it. It’s easy to make promises if you never have to deliver on...

Mark 12:13-27 It’s a cunning trap the Pharisees have set for Jesus. They go to him with the Herodians, Jews who are loyal to the Romans,...

Mark 12:1-12 In Matthew 23, Jesus notes that the Pharisees say to themselves, “if we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not...

Genesis 24:1–31 We don’t like to think about it too much for obvious reasons, but the marriages of the patriarchs are uncomfortably...

Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23 I find it rather interesting that St. Joseph doesn’t have any lines in the Gospel. Joseph doesn’t actually speak...

Genesis 21:1-21 When Sarah tells Abraham that she wants Hagar and Ishmael cast out of her home, there’s obviously an element of personal...

Genesis 18:1-5 St. Paul tells us that the Gospel is foolishness to those who are perishing. This is most certainly true for those who are...

Genesis 13 When Lot chooses to settle in the Jordan Valley, he does so because, as Moses tells us, “it was well-watered everywhere, like...

Mark 4:1-20 I’ve probably preached on the Sower and the Seed more than any other text in the Bible, and I’ve also repeated myself more in...

Genesis 7:11-8:12 Why does the Holy Spirit descend on Christ in the form of a dove after His baptism? The answer, of course, is because...

Genesis 6:1-7:5 Perhaps more than any story in the Bible, unbelievers in general and atheists specifically really don’t like the story of...

Genesis 2:4-25 “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman because she was taken out of man.” When...

Genesis 1:20-2:3 When God initially gives Adam dominion over the earth, it’s an easy task, in a sense, because the earth has not yet been...

Genesis 1:1-19 When God created light, He created it for you. He created light so that you, the pinnacle of His creation, could see His...

John 11:17-37 Why does Jesus weep over the death of Lazarus when He knows He’s about to lift Him back to life? I’ve heard some people...

John 9:1-23 When the disciples ask Jesus why this man was born blind, they’re trying to answer the question of suffering. They’re trying...

John 8:39-59 Beware those who get offended on behalf of someone else. Because, very often, vicarious offense is really just a smokescreen...

John 8:21-38 One of the chief reasons Christ’s own people rejected Him was because they were expecting and desiring a political messiah....

Acts 1:15-26 When a Christian woman is looking for a new job, she typically asks God to lead her where she’s supposed to go. But she only...