God used the marriage of Hosea to try to get Israel’s attention. He told Hosea to marry a prostitute and experience the pain of being...

In this story, Jesus compares the prayers of two Jewish men, a Pharisee and a tax collector.  When Jesus’ first century Jewish audience...

Many argue this story is not a parable. Unfortunately, that endless debate almost always shifts the focus from the moral of the story to...

Jesus told a story about a farmer with a bumper crop. The farmer drew up plans to store his newly acquired wealth and retire. However, in...

In this first parable, Jesus uses four types of soil to illustrate a sobering truth, many people have ears to hear but don’t really hear...

Most of what the New Testament says about the Holy Spirit is in the context of the collective life of the church. The Holy Spirit is...

Jesus assumed that after his ascension to the throne, his followers would fast. He even gave them specific instructions about how to fast....

Paul gives Christians this command, “be filled with the Spirit.” The next few phrases in Ephesians 5 either teach Christians how to be...

The pouring out of the Holy Spirit marks, for those who receive him, entrance into the age to come. This is an age in which, for us, war...