Reflections

3 John 1:9-11. " 9I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will have nothing to do with us. 10So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, gossiping maliciously about us. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers. He also stops those who […]

2 John 1: 4-6.  "4It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. 5And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. 6And this […]

Psalm 46:10 –  "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." In an average day, we are bombarded with 3,000 messages a day.  We are glued to our crackberries.  Our computers are on 24×7.  Our inboxes are full and while trying […]

Jesus identifies 2 types of believers in this passage where an official’s son is healed in Galilee.  First, you have those who look for miraculous signs.  Unless they see or witness external, visible, miraculous events, they will not believe.  The other group is not mentioned, but by implication, there is a second group who is […]

In this passage, Jesus angrily clears the temple because his Father’s house of prayer had been turned into a marketplace.  A place where there ought to be worship and surrender and devotion to God had been intermixed with non-religious activities such as buying and selling and making deals.  How did this happen?  People traveled far […]