Article: The Christmas Story as Told by Children

In Luke 10:25-37 an expert in Jewish Law asks Jesus about what he must do to go to heaven. As an expert in Jewish Law, he knew the answer. He was testing Jesus. Not surprising, Jesus turns the table on him and asks the expert, “What does the Jewish Law say?” Quick with an answer…

Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Philippians 2:4 No, that does not contradict the earlier words of Saint Paul when he wrote, “ Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands,…

At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”  He called a little child and had him stand among them. And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore,…

I recently came across an article from the Good News Network about some very old trees. In 1993, a cypress tree stump in Chile was confirmed by tree-ring-counting as 3,622 years old—showing the capacity of these slow-growing relatives of sequoia to endure through centuries. However, another scientist recently found that a living individual, known as…

I was reading Paul’s letter to the Ephesians recently and I was struck by the “big issue” Paul needed to address within the church. Literally, it is an issue that might seem irrelevant to us or a “thing of the past.” Yet, if we look at the same issue thematically, it is still an topic…

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