By Jacqueline J. Holness When Oxford Dictionaries announced that their word of 2013 winner was selfie, the Facebook fanatic within me thought it was the appropriate choice, given the selfies that friends incessantly post on their profile pages. If this is your first time learning about the word, a selfie is “a photograph that […]
By Dan Lentz 1. What life experiences do you wish you had known more about before you found yourself immersed in them? Read Hosea 6:1-3; Luke 24:1-12. 2. Think about what the women knew about Jesus at different times in the Luke passage. What would you say they knew about Jesus: • as […]
By Keith Short When our two boys were growing up, we encouraged them to read. There was a little elementary school down the road from us, and we made arrangements with the school to take their discarded books. Some of the books were interesting to our kids, while others, well, they were just pushed […]
By Sam E. Stone All of the Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah were fulfilled in Jesus. Today we hear from two prophets, Jeremiah and Zechariah, before turning to John’s Gospel to see how their predictions came true. Jeremiah is often called “the weeping prophet” because of the difficult message he had to deliver. […]
By Dan Lentz 1. If you had to define yourself to someone who didn’t know you and could only use five descriptive words, what words would you choose? Read Jeremiah 23:5, 6; Zechariah 6:9-15; John 19:1-5. 2 Make a list of as many descriptive words about Jesus as you can find from these passages. […]
