That’s what Nicodemus said. But I can’t tell what kind of “I don’t understand” it is. There is the kind of “I don’t understand” which means, “Can you help me understand?” There’s the kind of “I don’t understand” which means “No one could understand this and it’s of no value to understand.” There’s the kind […]

Decades ago, when Chuck Colson called his book, “Born Again”, it was part of putting that phrase at the front of popular culture. Everyone heard about, some people understood, some people parodied, the idea of being born again. Which is, of course, pretty close to what happened one evening somewhere around Jerusalem. Nicodemus was one […]

The end of the story is that because of the story, the disciples of Jesus put their faith in him. The beginning of the story is that the disciples followed Jesus to a wedding. The middle of the story is that some servants filled some water jars about half the size of a whiskey barrel […]