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                      Please read the passage before the commentary Who is the Jesus Christ that Paul and Epaphras preached?  He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.  It is in Jesus Christ that all things were … Continued

                           Please read the passage before the commentary This is the beginning of the letter from Paul to the Colossians.  Epaphras has brought the gospel to the Colossians; Paul had not.  It is closely related to the letters to the … Continued

   Please read the passage before the commentary. Put yourself in this context.  You are expecting the second coming of Christ in your own lifetime.  Some of your family or friends have died and Christ has not returned yet.  Will these … Continued

Please read the passage before mthe coommentary. Picture a banquet hall in Jesus’ time.  It had three tables, The head table sat. the host. The other two tables stretched out at angles to the left and right of the host.  … Continued

Por favor, lean este pasaje ante de la homilía. Imagina una sala de banquete en la época de Jesús.  Había tres mesas que se formaba como la letrea U.  el anfictión estaba tumbado en la mesa cabeza y la persona … Continued

Please read the passage before the commentary. God wants us to have holiness, free of attacks on our immune systems, free from all cancers, free to be as God is, holy completely.  Do we want this for ourselves?  Paul encouraged … Continued

Please read the text before the commentary. “I worked night and day not to burden you.”  Paul recapped his activities among the Thessalonians this way.  He did it, not to brag or to call attention to himself.  He did it … Continued

Por favor, lean este pasaje ante de la homilía. Esfuércense por entrar por la puerta que es angosta.  La puerta ancha, la autopista, el camino para los camiones conduce a la comercia, a los negocios y a las fábricas, no … Continued

Please read the text before the commentary.        The Book of Ruth is a book about people crossing borders.  Ruth was a Moabite woman, married to an Israelite and man and widowed from him.  Her mother-in-law Noami, had migrated to … Continued

Please read the text before the commentary.             Abimelech was a son of Gedeon, who was judge of Israel and had seventy sons by his wife.  Abimelech was Gideon’s son by another woman, either a secondary wife or a concubine. … Continued