The last few sentences of the book of Matthew are known as “The Great Commission.” We’ll look at those this week. However, right before that are two other commissions, two  stories of people being sent. In the first, an angel and then Jesus send two women with a message to the disciples. It’s a reminder […]

On Christmas morning, I’m writing about Easter Sunday. It’s odd. But it’s a good reminder that babies grow up. Even Baby Jesus. Let’s look at angels. They kept telling people where Jesus was. The night he was born, for example, an angel appeared to the shepherds and told them to head to town (Luke 2). […]

Christmas eve day is a peculiar day. It is a day of sitting around, being edgy, wondering what is in that package. It is a day of expectation. It is a day of hoping that what is in the wrapping is everything you dreamed, and knowing, deep down, that at some level it won’t be. […]

It’s two days before Christmas and we are reading about Easter. But let’s me more accurate, shall we? It is two days before many people celebrate the birth of Jesus and we are reading about his death. In Matthew 27:33-50, we are reading about his death. We use religious shorthand – Christmas, Easter –  to […]

It is hard to be ridiculed. To trip and dump everything on your tray, to hear silence for a moment and then laughter, that’s tough. To miss one item on the checklist and then to be teased forever about your inability to do simple things right, that’s tough. To betray God and to have your […]