A Bride for Isaac and a Bride for Jesus


Genesis 24  Who doesn’t love a wedding? They are beautiful but weddings are the end of courtship and planning. The bride is one who is sought but the groom is the one who shoulders the family after consummation.  Reading carefully through this chapter we encounter a servant sent to acquire a bride, a bride and […]

Are You Revealing God’s Glory?


John 2 “Are you Revealing God’s Glory?” When there is a task that needs attending, do you do it half-way or all the way? Do you do it to reveal God’s glory or your own? Jesus was an invited wedding guest to a wedding in Cana of Galilee. While there,  Jesus’ mother noted a problem; […]

An Invitation…Will You Accept?


The Parade is over and Jesus is in the Temple once again and is teaching, as he has so often, about the kingdom of heaven through parables. We remember that Jesus told the disciples that he would be using that approach: “I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and […]