Tag: Matthew

  • Days of Despair

     In Christ we have a Light of hope in a season of our dark despair. Job 30: 16 “And now my soul is poured out within me;     days of affliction have taken hold of me. 17 The night racks my bones,     and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest. Have you ever had a bad time in life like…

    Despair or hope?
  • Hate

    Paris – 13 November, 2015 It seems that hatred headlines will overwhelm the news once more. Not that it ever left our consciousness, but often hate will lose momentum in the mundane or even be displaced by love’s compassion. Desperate followers of evil men willingly sacrifice innocents by the intentional lie-driven sacrifices for the glory of their own…

    Hate
  • Interrupting Jesus 11 – a last supper in Jericho

    Jericho, best known as the place where the Hebrew nation, led by Joshua, began their conquest of Canaan with a march around the walls of Jericho, strategically central to inland trade routes to the Mediterranean. Along a barren highway to the west, about a 15 mile walk to Jerusalem after an ascent from the small town of Bethel. Galileans,…