Christians are to be imitators of God, which means to walk in love just as Christ loved us and to avoid the evil of our former lives.
Because of God’s work of salvation in us, we need to work out our salvation.
This first parable from Matthew provides the key to understanding all the parables and to entering the kingdom of God.
In Jonah 2, we take a break from the narrative to read a poem of thanksgiving that Jonah prayed when he was detained for...