“For God so loved the world…. (Jn. 3:15) In 1967, a song written by a then unknown country singer named Bobbie Gentry made it all the way to the top ...
“This is my beloved Son; listen to him” (Mk. 9:7) Remember the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind? If you do, it dates you because it came out in ...
“The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert…. He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him.” Mk. 1:13 Some time ago, I had the delightful experience of ...
“… return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning” Joel: 2, 12 We’re busy people. We have all kinds of time commitments. We find ourselves ...
“’If you wish, you can make me clean.’ Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, ‘I will do it. Be made clean.’” Mk. ...
“… they brought to him all who were ill or possessed by demons… So he went into their synagogues, preaching and driving out demons throughout the whole of Galilee.” ...