Posts from January 2025

Jesus was a master storyteller. He captivated audiences with the way He weaved spiritual truth in with practical stories. Nearly 2000 years later, the teachings of Jesus still captivate our hearts and minds. It’s the spiritual depth of such simple stories and the questions that He stirs deep within us that make these teachings so riveting and soul-prodding. Many of Jesus’ teachings were in the form of parables—a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson. These parables…

“God, we thank you for the inspiration of Jesus. Grant that we will love you with all our hearts, souls, and minds, and love our neighbors as we love ourselves, even our enemy neighbors. And we ask you, God, in these days of emotional tension, when the problems of the world are gigantic in extent and chaotic in detail, to be with us in our going out and our coming in, in our rising up and in our lying down,…