God is Into the Details

Jesus, son of Joseph of the House of David. Recently I learned how amazing that line is. Beginning The PromiseTo understand why we need to start with Abraham. God made a Covenant with Abraham that included numerous promises, including, the reader comes to realize, the...

The Death of the Innocent

What kind of man could order the death of innocent children? The same man who could order the death of his very own sons. Herod The Great Herod the Great was a complex man. In some ways he was a great ruler who was able to keep a very unstable region together. But the...

Jesus: A Rabbi Unlike Any Other

Jesus was not simply a Jewish man. He was also a Rabbi. Jesus is actually called “rabbi” in the gospels. (Mk 9:5, Jn 1:49, Jn 3:2) And what does that mean? Well a Rabbi was a teacher of Scripture. And yes they still have Rabbis today. Today we’re going to look at 4...

Saturated in the Scriptures… at Home

If Jesus was real, then He had a certain ethnicity. In His humanity He belonged to a specific people group and therefore, was brought up in a certain culture.  In other words, who were His parents? How was He raised? Well, acknowledging that Jesus was Jewish actually...