False prophet or true?: Deuteronomy 18:15-20; Mark 1:21-28
True prophets have a different bottom line than false ones, but that doesn’t make them any easier to recognize.
True prophets have a different bottom line than false ones, but that doesn’t make them any easier to recognize.
The Christian church was born with Simon Peter’s mother-in-law.
If it were me, I would have stayed in the fishing boat or dithered about what to do until Jesus was just a speck on the horizon.
When I was a child, my mother and aunt would go Christmas shopping together. At the end of the day, I would beg them to take me to the park near the shopping district. There, nestled in a dark grove of trees, we’d find a life-size nativity, carefully illumined with spotlights from within the stable. As a child I thought it glorious to walk slowly through the ominously dark park and then suddenly find myself in a place that was as bright as day.