Merry Christmas. Thank you for reading. I pray you are enjoying this Christmas season. As we have so far this Christmas, I ask that as you scroll the readings today, please pay attention to the miracles. Not just in number, for there are many, not just in the common Christmas scriptures, for these are familiar and easily taken for granted. But please pay attention to the miracles that happen from above, across thousands of years, involving God’s relationship to mankind. For

Happy Fourth of July to all of you. Today we are beginning a short book in the Bible 2 Peter. Short though it is, it is important, because of Peter’s exhortations against the false teachings of the day that were coming from the Gnostics. Gnosticism has always been a mash-up of different beliefs, mainly focused on these main tenets: Matter is evil and spirit is good Salvation is attained through gaining knowledge, a secret knowledge Jesus was a messenger from heaven, not reall