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Then Jesus said to the Roman officer, “Go back home. Because you believed, it has happened.” And the young servant was healed that same hour (Matthew 8:13). There is an old comedian named Steven Wright, whom I used to love as a kid. He had one joke about a light switch in his house that didn’t do… Read more
Time for a little pop-culture trivia:Q. “I pity the fool” is a catchphrase spoken by which famous actor?A. If you answered Mt. T, you are correct.Q. Which Mr. T character said those words?A. If you said B.A. Baracus from “The A-Team”—wrong! Contrary to popular belief, B.A. never said, “I pity the fool.” It was another… Read more
When I was in college in Virginia, there was a place nearby called Mountain Lake. At the base of this mountain was a cave where some of my classmates and I would go spelunking. It was a bit adventurous. Pitch black, bats, underground rivers. It was cool. To enter this cave, most people went through… Read more
At first glance, the content in Matthew 7:1-11 can seem disjointed and random. I don’t know how your Bible is divided, but there are several paragraphs and headers that would lead the reader to think that the thoughts are separated for a reason. But we must remember that in the original text, there were no… Read more
