You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and [...]

At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, “Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you.”
He replied, “Go tell that fox, ‘I will drive out demons and heal people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.’ In any case, I must [...]

…police officers don’t like to be called “dude”.
File next to: Police officers don’t like “bro” either…

On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
“What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”
He answered: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all [...]

A good number of my friends know that I have forever been a little bit of a political junkie (and would probably laugh at my use of “a little bit”, in the same sense that the Pope is a little bit Catholic).
Earlier, when there were seemingly a dozen GOP candidates, I looked over the field [...]

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we have examined what a first-century ‘rabbi’ was (as opposed to the modern Orthodox Jewish Rabbi) and established that Jesus was personally living and acting within this religious & social role. With that as background, I will be spending the next two or three articles [...]

It’s so nice when cheaters don’t win…
Footnote from here:
Saturday morning, the Boston Herald ran a story asserting the Patriots secretly taped the Rams’ private walk-through before Super Bowl XXXVI. The Herald cited an unnamed source and did not name Walsh as the person behind the camera.
Also Saturday, Mike Fish reported on ESPN that St. Louis’ [...]