There are a lot of different definitions of the word “commandment.” No matter which definition you use, there are a lot of commandments in the Bible. This leads to the question by at least some people, how many are there? This isn’t a bad question, even if it is hard to answer, it is more…
Today’s sermon comes from the story of two of Jesus’ disciples mournfully going to Emmaus. We don’t know why they were going there, but we know they encountered a person on the trip who asked them what they were talking about. They rhetorically asked the person if they were the only stranger in Jerusalem who…
There are quite a few intriguing characters in the Bible. Most of them are intriguing because we know so little about them. One of them is one of the two principle characters in our Gospel reading, Nicodemus. Who was Nicodemus? We know he was a Pharisee and we know he was on the Jewish council…