The title isn’t the best grammar; but it gets to the point. What I want us to consider is the question, “Why did Jesus come to earth?” Or to put it another way, “What did Jesus come to do?” To clarify ...

We often hear around Christmas and Epiphany (Jan. 7) that Jesus wasn’t (take your pick) God, human or real. There are “news” accounts and “journalistic” pieces about how this or that scholar, novelist ...

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16). Perhaps one of the best-known verses in the Bible, this ...

The official liturgical season of “Christmas” is intense but short. We are already back in Ordinary Time (until the beginning of Lent on Feb. 17). Last Sunday’s Gospel, recounting the Baptism of Jesus ...

"So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was ...

Last Sunday, we heard the earlier part of Matthew's Gospel where Matthew describes how John the Baptist is the one coming to prepare the way of the Lord. Remember, John began to teach in the desert of ...

Why it’s hard to be heavenly minded. Jesus came back on a Saturday night. Mike and I were sitting in his car after the prayer meeting, discussing the return of Christ, and had just observed that it ...

What if you ran into Jesus in town today and he said he wanted to drop by your house for lunch? What would be your first thoughts? That you need to clean your house first? Or "what do I have in the ...