A father takes out a newspaper advertisement for his estranged son — all is forgiven — and eight hundred young men named Paco come to the meeting place. Elliott Stearns…
Pentecost in Acts 2 — tongues of fire, and the dictionary's word of the day arriving as 'sea change': a big and sudden transformation, which is what a new creation…
Acts 4:13-22 and verse 20 — we are not able not to speak the things we have seen and heard. Four questions from the passage, aimed at getting to that…
Proverbs 1 opening the new year, on Scripture as God's wise reprover — reproof being an uncomfortable theme for the first Sunday of January, and chosen anyway.
Palm Sunday in Mark 11 — the donkey, the withered fig tree and the mountain — from a Bible teacher who deliberately refused to reuse the notes from the last…
A series on John 3 opens with the man rather than the verse. Elliott Stearns reads Nicodemus closely, down to a conjunction in verse one most readers miss, and traces…