Acts 23:35 He said, “I will hear your case when your accusers get her.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod’s palace. Politically motivated conspiracies are nothing new. Plots to kill political rivals are not just something that happens in other parts of the world, to be read about in theContinue reading “Under Guard – Acts 23:35”
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Apr 30 Political Expedience – John 19:15
Luke 19:15 But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!” “Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered. There are moments in history that change its course, both personally and even collectively. Some of those changes are small, seemingly insignificant moments. Some areContinue reading “Apr 30 Political Expedience – John 19:15”
Kids Are Spared
2 Kings 14:6 Yet he did not put the children of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses where the Lord commanded: “Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will dieContinue reading “Kids Are Spared”
Written Charges
Mark 15:25-26 Murder. Terrorism. Genocide. Chemical weapons attack. Conspiracy. Assassination. Serial rapist. Child molester. Bubblegum thief. Jay walking. The charges leveled against people over the years are almost endless. Charges against someone in a court of law shape a person’s future. Some crimes deserve death. Some don’t. And as we have seen inContinue reading “Written Charges”