Posts from January 2020
THE PROOF OF LOVE
We all want to know that we are loved, don’t we?…Whether it’s a spouse who needs to feel your embrace more often, a child who needs to be cheered up, or those people moments from death on 9/11 who picked up their cell phones to exchange the words “I love you” with family members. It’s a terrible thing not to be loved. Ask anyone who grew up abused or abandoned, physically or spiritually neglected, or just plain scared of the…
LOOKING TO THE CURSED FOR A CURE
There is a knock on the door one night. It is Nicodemus. He wants to talk to Jesus. Privately. As a Jewish leader he doubtless worries about guilt by association with this new Teacher on the scene who is working wonders. Amid the soaring truths about a new birth and God’s plan of salvation, Jesus points the old scholar back to the Old Testament: “Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must…