During the stay at home orders, with our church meeting via Zoom, my sermons became shorter – about 7 minutes. This commentary will also be short. Here is one major insight about this passage that I have found helpful. I hope you do, too: My view of life after death has been strongly influenced by NT Wright. After reading and studying his work, I am convinced that Christian hope – when speaking of afterlife – is a bodily resurrection on a renewed earth, not a disembodied spiritual life “in...

Have Mercy on Us One of my seminary professors, Jerry Camery-Hoggatt, taught me that language is linear. We hear (or read) one thing at...

Knowledge of the show Downton Abbey or the house elves of the Harry Potter universe would help us understand this passage. Luke’s Jesus...