“But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless” James 2:20?  I love Christmas carols . In them we celebrate Jesus and Mary and angels and shepherds.  We exalt stars and lambs and little drummer boys. Magi, Eastern astrologers, even make the list.However, I’m hard pressed to think of one carol that mentions Joseph …[ read more ]

Matt 18:35“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.” From your heart…this is not a superficial forgiveness, but a deep, no loop-hole forgiveness. It sounds good, but the Bible doesn’t give us a twelve step program on how to achieve this. Perhaps because each …[ read more ]