This Jesus Was Not Too Safe.

14The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened. 15And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. 16And those who had seen it described [...]

Smackdown Stories – For the Pharisee in All of Us

1 And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. 2He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ 3And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to [...]

Smackdown Stories: Working on the Sabbath

Sometimes reading a section like this just makes you remember how blinded humanity as a whole can be by routines, disciplines, and practices that we miss the consummation of it all, Truth in Christ.
1At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain [...]