It’s almost Halloween, so let me tell you about an important gast. “What’s that?” you ask. Well, it’s the Old English word for a ghost. Old English is the phase that our language went through before William the Conqueror. Traces of it remain in Modern English. Old...

Nevertheless I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter (parakletos) will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. (John 16:7 KJV) I shed secret tears when I say goodbye to close friends. It’s...

It’s hard to hide a big party in a small town with an outdoor lifestyle and no sound-proofing. The Pharisees and scribes noticed Matthew’s and frowned. Then they asked a question that, of all the questions in the Gospels, might be the best cue for explaining Jesus’...