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After enduring decades of Babylonian exile, the Israelites finally return to their homeland expecting the Temple’s glorious restoration and a return to milk and honey.  But their easy fantasies of the Promised Land are quickly displaced by the hardships of Jerusalem. They get discouraged, then pessimistic, then self-centered.  They get completely absorbed in scuffing their...

Miracles are rare. They’re to be exercised with great discretion, only used for the most utilitarian of purposes.  The healing of a blind man who spent his life begging in the dark.  The exorcism of a demoniac chained up in a cemetery of solitary confinement. The raising of a little girl from the clutches of...

Thanks to Leigh Siler, Elizabeth Propst, and Phoebe Propst for playing beautiful Christmas music at the Downtown Welcome Table this week! &nb...

They rain on our parades; they obscure our vision; they represent ominous omens on the horizon. The weatherman never smiles while reporting a cloudy forecast.  Clouds have a bad reputation.  But not so in the Bible.  The rainbow after the flood was set in the cloud.  The Lord led the Israelites out of slavery in...