Noah & the Ark

The story of Noah’s Ark has inspired considerable derision over the years, particularly from those with strong scientific leanings. Let me say from the start, though, that Christianity has no quarrel with genuine science. God created the physical universe. God created...

John 4.1-45

Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he...

John 1.14

John 1.14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. The Word, Jesus, became flesh. Sometimes theologians will use the phrase, “God incarnate”. This word, incarnate, is a...

Deliver Us From Evil

Matthew 6.13 Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. This is the concluding line to the prayer Jesus gave his disciples when they asked him how they should pray.  Before providing his model, Jesus emphasized the hypocrisy of using prayer to impress...