by Larry Eubanks | Dec 31, 2013 | Opinion
They’ve been called kings, wise men, astrologers, sorcerers and magicians, but we ought to call them what they are: magi. I know that doesn’t tell us anything about them, but that’s the point. We know what all those other descriptions imply, so we...
by Larry Eubanks | Dec 12, 2013 | Opinion
We don’t normally think of babies as dangerous, and certainly not the baby Jesus, but that’s exactly how Matthew portrays him. He’s a dangerous baby, a threat to the most powerful man on earth at the time – the Roman Emperor, Caesar Augustus. True,...
by Larry Eubanks | Dec 2, 2013 | Opinion
What do you do when you have to be around someone you really don’t like? It’s natural to want to hang around with people we like, and few of us would choose to spend time with someone we didn’t like, much less groups of people we don’t like....
by Larry Eubanks | Nov 20, 2013 | Opinion
In the beginning, we all had the same calling. It’s commonplace now to talk about God’s unique calling on our individual lives, and that my calling may be different from your calling – and that’s all right. But in the beginning, we all had the same...
by Larry Eubanks | Oct 3, 2013 | Opinion
It’s too easy when reading about ancient history from the Bible to allow our eyes to roll back in our head out of boredom. Most of that boredom is because we think that it just isn’t relevant to our lives today, though this is not the case more often than...
