For as long as I can remember my family has loved blackberry pie. It was a favorite of my grandfather, who was born in 1879 and lived to be 95. It is the wild blackberries that we like. The tame ones are not as good. The last few years it has been hard to find…
A passage that I consider to be one of the very few absolutely foundational statements in the Bible is Ex. 19.5-6, words of God to Israel: “Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then you will be my own possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is…
Please read Jn. 18.1-19.46, the end of the account of the arrest and “trial“ of the Lord Jesus. What are we to learn from this passage? Perhaps the best way to learn its lessons is to look at the people involved. The first actor in this drama is Jesus himself. What do we see in…