September 2024

Always keep on praying.   —1 Thessalonians 5:17 He was a helpless paralytic. Someone had to bathe him, shave him, and feed him. Four compassionate friends heard that Jesus was in town. Word had it that he could heal. So they loaded their invalid friend on a stretcher and off they went. But a packed […]

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them.            —Matthew 9:36 The picture of the terrorist’s decapitated captive was gruesome. The agony of family members being subjected to that photograph of their brutalized loved one is hard to imagine. The death of John the Baptist was a grizzly, heartless