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The Pharisees crashed Matthew’s dinner party and asked Jesus’ disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”1 […]

Matthew, was a tax collector. His job was to collect money from the Jews. He could tax anyone for just

Our world encourages us to look at ourselves. A lot! And so, we do—so much so that a selfie is

Because the young man was wearing a NY Yankees hat, my husband Mark asked the guy, “Are you a fan?”

When I asked my students for the definition of freedom, they all agreed that it was being able to do

We cannot wreck our lives. Oh, we can make colossal mistakes and inflict irreparable harm on others and ourselves; we

The Second Most Important Thing The first is love. The second? Steadfastness, which is also referred to as endurance or

The Most Important Thing One day a lawyer asked Jesus a question “to test him.”1  He said, “Teacher, which is

Jesus gave us some very specific guidelines about how to pray. One striking thing he tells us is that we

When Eve decided to eat the fruit from the one tree God had instructed her not to eat from, she