Today, let’s look at a familiar story: the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37). Here, the problem was the fear of those who wouldn’t help the Samaritan. The Problem: Real Danger Of course, they had reason to be afraid. The road they were traveling was dangerous. There were always robbers and bandits there. So…

As we discussed in Part I, we live in a world packed with the supernatural. We see this going on in the story of the interaction between Jesus and Nathanael in the Gospel of John (John 1:43-51). Here, Philip, Nathanael’s friend, is overcome with joy. Why? Because he knows, as another disciple, Andrew, says to…

In today’s world, we talk a lot about “the cloud.” We save our music in the cloud. We store documents in the cloud. Our messages sometimes get lost in the cloud. But today, I want to talk to you about another kind of cloud—one that may seem as hard to understand as the one in…