Abraham’s example proves that the only way to be right with God is through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works, ritual, law, or the what we can now see.
Through a series of mistakes by the disciples, Jesus taught them and us what following him is not.
The rejection of Jesus by many Israelites is God‘s plan for the salvation of the nations, and even of Israel itself.
In another dispute with his people in Malachi 3:6-12, God gave his people of that day a lesson in generosity, which Christians need to...