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“I do will it. Be made clean” (Luke 5:13). 1 John 5:5-13; Luke 5:12-16 After Jesus identified himself and his ministry with the messianic text in Isaiah 61, filled with the Spirit and anointed t...

REFLECTIONS TODAY Galilee, the region of northern Palestine, came under the Assyrians in 722 BC. Many of the inhabitants were exiled to Nineveh, and pagan foreigners were brought in to settle in the land. The region experienced more foreign influence than Judea, and its inhabitants intermarried with the pagans. The prophet Isaiah referred to it as gelil haggoyim — “District of the Gentiles” (8:23) precisely because of pagan elements. The impure race, the pagan elements, and the suspect or...

Source: Subject’s own After two years ratcheting up air miles travelling the film festival and awards circuit with Capernaum, Lebanese filmmaker and actress Nadine Labaki has been grounded in Lebanon for much of 2020. She was in the middle of launching a campaign to encourage more sustainable living when Beirut was devastated by the huge ammonium nitrate explosion of August 4. Since then, Labaki has been at the forefront of efforts to raise awareness of the challenges facing the city and Leb...

________ After Israel was “baptized” in the Red Sea, they wandered in the wilderness (1 Corinthians 10:1-5). During that time they received God’s law on a mountain (Acts 7:38). Jesus retraced old Israel’s steps. He was baptized and tested in the wilderness (Matthew 3-4). Now it was time to give the new Israel (Matthew 4:18-22) a new law (of sorts). The Sermon on the Mount was probably the greatest sermon ever preached. It was the first of five sermons of Jesus recorded in Matthew. The s...

Jesus was an equal-opportunity party attender. He’d show up whether the host was a legalistic Pharisee or a lawbreaking tax collector. And in those days, a shared meal signified a shared life. Even more, he had long conversations with Gentiles and Samaritans, the “outsiders” of his culture. Whether in Israel or nearby Gentile lands, Jesus ministered to any kind of person he encountered. If Jesus lived on earth today, perhaps he would spend hours in coffee shops in mixed neighborhoods, str...

The Heart of the Matter. I have always wanted to have a way of helping people. I feel that sharing Jesus in a way that takes Him out of rigid religion and that brings Him to the very heart of people is needed. Mary and Martha were Jesuss friends. Their brother Lazarus died. Jesus was heading their way, but in His own time. When Mary came out to see Jesus, she said, “Lord, if you had been here my brother would not have died”. Jesus wept, the smallest verse in the bible had the greatest imp...

Pic: Kalki Koechlin Instagram 2020 was not a pleasant year due to the pandemic but it surely was a blessed one for Kalki Koechlin. In February, the actress and her boyfriend Guy Hershberg welcomed their daughter Sappho, who has since made adorable appearances in many Instagram pics. As the year comes to an end, ETimes got in touch with new-mom Kalki who got candid about the year that flew by, her new acquired talents, her wishes for the new year and more. Excerpts: Describe 2020 in one sentenc...

No, Rev. Warnock, Jesus Was Not A Poor Peasant Jerry Bowyer Chief Economist of Vident Financial, Editor of Townhall Finance, and President of Bowyer Research 2020 Dec 21 Recently video footage has emerged which shows Georgia’s Democratic candidate for Senate, Rev. Raphael Warnock, preaching from the pulpit that Jesus was "a poor Palestinian prophet." He says that after making some favorable comments about Marxists. Le...

COMMENTARY Road trip! But not in the back of a minivan. This trip was on foot—roughly 65 miles of road from Nazareth to Jerusalem. This was Passover. An annual celebration of God’s protective hand, liberty, freedom, passover. Jesus at 12 was a boy emerging as a young man. No doubt familiar communities collected in Jerusalem: a neighborhood from Ephraim, a faithful group from Cana, a tribe of fishermen from Capernaum, a small throng from Nazareth that included a young couple in their late tw...

 Galilee was on the way to everywhere Alvin Petty, Faith Columnist FacebookTwitterEmail Alvin PettyEllysa Harris/Plainview Herald Jesus, after a short tour of all the synagogues of Galilee, moves on to a teaching tour of where people were gathered in Galilee. The open air is his church; a boat is his pulpit. Rabbis often taught students as they walked together from one place to another. Galilee was one of the great road centers of the world. A saying back then was this: "Judea is on the wa...