Christianity can be summed up in two words: “Follow Me” (MAT 4:19). This is what Jesus said to people as He called them to step out in discipleship and then to make tracks in serving God.

The Incarnation, Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, and Parousia (or “second coming,” as we say) reached a zenith fulfillment in the last week of His earthly life referred to as “The Passion of Christ” and “Holy Week.” The whole of His thirty three years culminated in one final week of ancient Jewish feasts and ritual event observations.

When Patrick was still young and tender he was kidnapped by the slavers from Ireland and trafficked back from his Romanesque British nobility background to the livestock pens of Erin.

When we say “bluebonnet” what we mean is the official state flower of the Great State

What’s more important than worship? Reconciliation! “Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.”

When Clive Staples Lewis died in 1963 his friend John Ronald Reuel Tolkien wrote, “So far I have felt the normal feelings of a man my age – like an old tree that is losing all its leaves one by one: this feels like an axe-blow near the roots.”