

THE THIRD DAY
It wasn’t on the second day. And it wasn’t on the fourth day. It was on the third day that the great fish “vomited Jonah onto dry land”...


LET THERE BE LIGHT
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery...


THE FIRST VERSE
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). The Holy Scriptures don’t start with an argument for the...


IN THE BEGINNING
Let’s read the book of Genesis together, not like a storybook, chapter after chapter, but analytically, verse by verse, with a specific...


JESUS’ FRIEND
“Jesus loved Martha, her sister (Mary), and Lazarus” (John 11:5). That’s where the story starts. Apparently, there was a special...


THE MAN AT THE POOL
The pool at Bethesda is a picture of our world today. Around this pool gathered the helpless and hopeless, the broken, “a large number of...


THE ROYAL OFFICIAL
Cana, the site of Jesus’ first miracle, was about twenty miles from Capernaum. The fishing village of Capernaum, on the northwestern...


THE FAITHFUL FATHER
Forty-something years ago, I preached my first sermon. As a trembling teenaged preacher, I proclaimed that the epileptic boy’s faithful...


THE FIVE FRIENDS
Early in Jesus’ ministry, the clamoring crowds “brought to him all those who were sick and demon-possessed. The whole town was assembled...


ONE OUT OF TEN
Imagine life in a first-century leper colony. The smell of death and decay hung heavy in the air. Everyone was suffering. Everyone was...









