Today’s chapter is Matthew 2. What I want to point out today is that Matthew, like any good author, writes with a specific purpose and a specific audience in mind. He’s not just putting words onto ...

It’s been one month since we celebrated Epiphany. Even though the Magi and all the other statues in our Nativity scenes are now packed away again in storage, we can imagine that if the real Magi had ...

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