Mike Blogs

More than once, God visited and repeated his covenant promise to Abram (Genesis 12, 15, 17 and 18). We love to recall Abram’s response...

Only the Romans had the power to execute convicted prisoners, which is why the Jerusalem leadership took Jesus to Pilate for judgment....

The Patience and Obedience of Sarai   Sarai and Abram have a problem. They are childless. God has promised something better, but God...

We are nearing the end of Jesus’ ordeal. Accusations are made, Jesus has no answer; or rather Jesus offers no answer. He knows what he is...

I suspect that the epitaph on my tombstone will say: “He never could keep a job.” Over a 50-year period of work I have had careers as a...

The unusual, perhaps even extra-judicial (as in a kangaroo court) proceedings unfold, but who is in charge? The Roman prefect, Pilate? He...

The Real Housewives of Nod: Adah and Zillah  In my Bible, the story in Genesis 4: 17-26 has a heading. It says the ‘Beginnings of...

Let’s remember what Jesus was saying and doing as there is an abrupt shift into a new phase of this Passion Week.   “Then he came to the...

Perhaps the OS, ‘the Original Sin’, includes the propensity of men to blame the woman. That happened to the first woman, Eve.   The...