Mar 27, 2019 | Earthen Vessels, News
You who are using the one-year lectionary must have rejoiced last week as I inadvertently based the Cross Words essay on that Gospel reading (Luke 11). I wish I could say I did it on purpose, and maybe in the future I will purposely write on the one-year lectionary...Mar 20, 2019 | Earthen Vessels, News
To be “blessed” is to receive a good thing from God. How wonderfully blessed is the mother of Jesus! Elizabeth, encountering the Christ in utero, was inspired to declare to Mary, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!” (Luke 1:42) The...Mar 6, 2019 | Earthen Vessels, News
Thank God that the Lord Jesus would be tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. (Heb. 4:15). He accomplished this for us, that we would know that His victory over temptation is our victory. Be encouraged in this victory of Jesus as you now consider the...
