By Jim Vitale Two roads lie before you. Which road will you walk? That’s the question Jesus poses in Mark 8:27-9:1. The first road leads to Caesarea Philippi, the city that Jesus and his disciples pass in this story. To first-century eyes, Caesarea Philippi would have been a sight to behold. During the early first-century, […]
By Jim Vitale Nothing grows that sin has not withered. Nothing lives that sin has not killed. Nothing gleams that sin has not tarnished. God looked upon creation and saw a blight stretching its diseased hand over all things. Sin, like a cancer, growing so deep into the world no scalpel could cut it out […]
By Jim Vitale What is the point of Lent? This is a question I come back to year after year. Why do we observe this dour season of reflection? So this year I did some research. Lent has been around almost as long as Christianity itself. Early on, people who desired baptism into the Christian […]
By Jim Vitale There’s a new rabbi in town. They say he cast a demon out of someone this morning, and now he’s staying at Simon and Andrew’s house. When I heard about it I headed over there myself to see what was going on. By the time I got there, a large crowd was […]
