When I look back at the Christmas we celebrated as a family in northern New York, when I was growing up I don’t even recognize Christmas the way I remember…

In our society it seems like the single most important thing to us is our identity. The Cambridge University Dictionary defines identity as the reputation characteristics, etc. of a person…

In studying the apostle Paul for my next book I came across this passage which made me think of something that happened in Philadelphia many years ago. I was part…

There are some texts in the Bible that make modern Christ-followers cringe. Among the most difficult of these is the statement of Yeshua about the need to hate one's own…

First Let Me Bury My Father In the gospels Jesus (Yeshua) made some statements that sound very disturbing to readers. One of these was directed to a man who asked…

In reading and studying the Bible and understanding the Christian faith there are a lot of factors that need to be considered but unfortunately are not in today’s teachings. The…

Going to Bible studies and reading about Christ’s crucifixion and how, at the moment he died, the veil of the temple was torn in two never really meant that much…