Matthew 12:38-45 Four Rabbis met each week for theological discussions and one of the Rabbis always seemed to be on the losing side. Each week it was 3 to 1 and finally this Rabbi decided to appeal to a higher authority. “Oh, God!” he cried. “I know in my heart that I am right and…
John 13:1-17 (Introduction from article in Psychology Today by Robert Wilson) King George III asked Benjamin West, his American painter, what George Washington would do if he prevailed in the Revolutionary War. West replied, “He will return to his farm.” The British monarch incredulously said, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man…
John 12:1-8 One of the places Annie and I visited last year on our visit to the Republic of Ireland was Muckross House in Killarney. This is a beautiful estate located on the peninsula between Muckross Lake and Lough Leane, two of the Killarney lakes. The house, really a mansion, was completed in 1843 by…
John 21:1-19 Why is it that so many of the significant experience Peter had with Jesus happened when he was in a boat? Peter caught his first glimpse of who Jesus was when he, the experienced fisherman, did what the carpenter-teacher from Nazareth told him to do. Both his boat and his partner’s boat were…
Matthew 14:28-33 There are some days when so much happens it feels that a week passed in just 24 hours and Matthew 14 shows us one of those days in the life of Jesus. This is a fascinating chapter, full of drama. John the Baptist boldly confronted Herod Antipas who had married his half-niece Herodius,…