
Let the Rich Man Come to Me
The Little Children One day while Jesus was teaching in Judea, some people were bringing their little children to Jesus

The Little Children One day while Jesus was teaching in Judea, some people were bringing their little children to Jesus

In our own day, we have a new set of historically unique cultural, political, and technological developments that are driving the spread of the church and the teachings of Christ.

John the baptizer’s sudden appearance comes at a time in history when people had been back in the promised land and waiting for the Jewish Messiah to finally arrive.

The New Testament scriptures were written to people whose entire worldview was saturated with the Hebrew scriptures.

After being asked “who is my neighbor?”, Jesus tells a story that flips the question around and makes us ask “how can I be a neighbor?”

We see suffering and instead of being moved to action by compassion for those who are in the middle of it, we are provoked on an intellectual level – like it is some kind of equation to be solved or a theory to be proved.