Republican have always been angry at President Obama for trying to go around Congress, extending the authority granted to the Executive Branch under various immigration legislation (or granted under the Constitution generally) to the limit and as they often suggest,…
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Father’s Day is a wonderful celebration that was invented to complement the much older celebration of Mother’s Day. It provides an excellent opportunity to preach sermons on the importance of fathers and biblical family leadership. The idea was introduced in 1910…
Shavuot and the Coming of the Holy Spirit
Sunday is the feast of Pentecost. It is the celebration each year of the coming of the Holy Spirit to the Church fifty days after the Resurrection. However, Pentecost didn’t originate in the New Testament. That’s just the Greek name…
Noah in Hindsight
I saw the film Noah about six weeks ago. I saw it because people wanted to know my opinion of it. So I gave my opinion of it to my inquirers in person and here. To the delight of some…
The Priority of the Gospels
It is important to read all of the Scriptures. They contain God’s message to us. As Paul told his protégé Timothy, All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man…
Do We Really Want to Pray in Jesus’ Name?
It’s like a closing to a letter. After all, how many people are thinking about their own sincerity or even less of how they belong to the intended recipient, when they write, “Sincerely Yours,”? Or in the British tradition, are…
The Cross Was Not Enough
Having explained the historical verifiability of the Resurrection in the first eleven verses of 1 Corinthians 15, St Paul then explains the theological necessity of the Resurrection in verse 12-19. His entire premise is built upon the reality of resurrection itself.…
Making the Case for the Resurrection
The most detailed explanation of the Resurrection in the New Testament is presented by St Paul in 1 Corinthians 15. He spends what we have as the first eleven verses establishing the historic fact of the Resurrection. This is unique…
The True Healing in the Cross
In Holy Week we focus especially on the Passion of the Lord, as we look forward to the events of Good Friday and Easter Sunday. I thought it a good time to look at one of the more misunderstood, misconstrued…