Scripture: Isaiah 11:1-10 and Matthew 11:2-11 Are you the one who is to come? Or should we look for another? Though these words were placed on the lips of a disillusioned and fatalistic John the Baptist some two thousand years ago, I think it is still a very good question. Are you the one we [...]
Scripture: Isaiah 11:1-10 and Matthew 3:1-12 What a relief, after our perilous journey these past couple of weeks through texts of judgment, apocalypse, and damnation, to turn to the gospel of Matthew’s wild, wild west version of the beginning of the ministry of John the Baptist. There he is, the Lone Ranger, proclaiming Truth to [...]
