Forty days after his resurrection, Jesus leaves the earth in physical form, and his body returns to heaven, where he sits down in his seat of honor at the right hand of God. That’s the story we heard last Sunday. We were “looking at feet,” as we stood with the apostles and watched Jesus ascendContinue reading “Sober Inebriation”
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‘Those Days’ Are Now ‘These Days’
Oddly enough, the Old Testament book of Joel hatches from an infestation of insects – more specifically, a swarm of locusts so efficiently devastating the countryside of Israel that famine and starvation are very real possibilities. By Joel’s reckoning, the buzzing disaster swarms large in divine judgment upon the Lord’s sinful people, who eventually getContinue reading “‘Those Days’ Are Now ‘These Days’”