Month: November 2025

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. (Acts 1:8) “You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed nor will there be one after me…I have revealed and saved and proclaimed – I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “that...

MARRIAGE IN HEAVEN, RESURRECTION, THE SADDUCEES and 21st Century Christians. And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection -Luke 20:34-36. In the Gospel reading from Luke 20, the Sadducees, with their flawed assumption about marriage and the resurrection, approached Jesus with...

In the Gospel of Luke 19, Jesus was actively fulfilling the purpose of His coming – ‘to seek and to save that which was lost’ all the way into the last days before His death on the Cross (Lk 19:10, 15:3-7). Zacchaeus, a tax collector with authority from the Roman government, earned his living by collecting from the people more than he should have. The fact that he was a chief collector probably meant he oversaw the district or region, which was relatively prosperous at the time. People generally despise tax collectors because of their greed and their position....