Matthew 1:18-25, 2:13-15 If you were sitting here at RIC one year ago, which of the events of 2011 would you have predicted? There had already been two weeks of demonstrations in Tunisia, but would you have predicted there would be a regime change in not only Tunisia, but also Egypt and Libya? Or would [...]
Matthew 2:1-11 The origin of giving gifts at Christmas has a number of different sources. In Matthew’s gospel we read that the magi came to see Jesus in Bethlehem, about a year after he was born, with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Although this is a logical precedent for giving gifts at Christmas, it [...]
Gospels We’ve been looking at encounters with Jesus over this period of Lent. We started with the Widow of Nain whose dead son Jesus raised to life. We followed with John’s disciples who came to Jesus asking if he was the Messiah. Then came the paralytic whose four friends carried him to Jesus; Simon the [...]
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Matthew 14:22-33 There are a lot of things the disciples did with Jesus that I would like to do. Giving blind people given their sight, helping people who were lame stand up and walk, casting out demons and seeing a life restored, these are all things I would like to do. It must have been [...]
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Matthew 19:1-12 Normally when I look for jokes on a certain topic, I find just a few, ten or twenty at most. But when I looked for jokes on the subject of divorce, I was amazed at how long the lists were. Here is a small sampling: My husband and I divorced over religious differences. [...]
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