When Jesus offers to carry your sickness
The pastor speaks of how Jesus takes and carries not just our sins but our sicknesses. It’s all right there, so clear in the Hebrew text of Isaiah 53 where eight…
Fifty days of surprise: An invitation to see
There’s been a tree out the back of my new place, a gnarled, moss-covered tree, looking half-dead. It has had its own beauty, I suppose, but I’ve never paid much…
For you who are highly favored. . .
“Greetings, you who are highly favored; the Lord is with you.” The words aren’t just for Mary. That same Greek verb which means “to highly favor” is used just one…