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Jesus Never Changes
Fifteen years ago, Dan was diagnosed with Mantle Cell Lymphoma. Seven months of treatments involving chemotherapy and radiation followed. The year before I had developed a digital “Change Management” file, in the face of my own three surgeries in seven months, that was very helpful in dealing with the 180° turn-around that cancer brought into our lives. In those documents are ideas about change, like the human circumstance of constant change (as in, there are three constants…..
Whether We Like It or Not
When Paul stood before the High Priest, Ananias, he did not know who it was in front of him. There were no electronics back then and no visual news platform for him to have seen Ananias or to know who he was unless someone had pointed him out on the street or in the temple prior to this incident. At the command of the chief captain of the Roman military contingent in Jerusalem, Paul…..
Leah
What do Isaac, Joseph, and Leah have in common? They are Old Testament types of Christ. We don’t usually consider Leah to be part of this list, but if you think about it, her life represented Christ’s earthly journey in three ways: she was unattractive, rejected, and yet chosen.
First, Leah was unattractive. Jacob’s trek to Padan-Aram with a dual purpose, to both flee his angry brother’s threats of murder and to marry a wife who was not a…..
Watch and Pray
While Jesus sat with His disciples on the Mount of Olives to the East of Jerusalem, they asked Him when the things He had been talking about would come to pass and how they would know when the prophecies were fulfilled. Mark 13 describes his teachings on this occasion, showing Jesus to be well versed in and effectively using Scripture, and speaking unreservedly in terms of Old Testament imagery. He ends His dissertation with multiple admonitions to…..