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In those days John the Baptist appeared in the desert of Judea announcing, “Change your hearts and lives!  Here comes the kingdom of heaven!”  (Mt. 3.1-2 CEB). In the living […]

Luke 2:41-52  “Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them.” Typical boys at one time or another create anxiety for their parents. Jesus

Luke 2. 41-51 This familiar story, as told in Luke, struck very close to me when our son Kenneth was just about the age Jesus was when this story was

Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Passover festival. When Jesus was twelve years old, they attended the festival as usual. After the celebration was over, they started

When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem, who were two

Matthew tells us that when Jesus was but a little baby, his father Joseph was told by Yahweh in, of all things, a dream to take Jesus and his mother

After the wise men were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up! Flee to Egypt with the child and his mother.” The angel

“You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the

“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the

“A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be