Luke 10.25-37 A lawyer tells Jesus that when he reads the law the Moses, he finds the hope of life in the commandments to wholeheartedly love God, and to love his neighbors and he loves himself. Jesus agrees and, when the lawyer asks “alright, but who is my neighbor,”...

1 Kings 19:15-16,19-21 / Luke 9:51-62 The histories of Jews and Samaritans diverge in the abyss of bad kings and broken kingdoms after Solomon, and the collapse of those kingdoms before the Assyrians, and in the rebuilding of identity as peoples after the exile....

Acts 16:9-15 Imagine you have a vision. A voice from outside yourself, pulling you towards an adventure, a mission. That’s what happens to Paul and his companions. They get a dream sign, a vision, in the voice of a man calling them into Macedonia. Paul has been guided...

Acts 9:36-43 In the Book of Acts, we’re at Joppa, a port city in Roman Judea. An urban trading center, a city of the empire. A place where cloth goods in particular, clothing, was made for sale down in Jerusalem and exported into the wider markets of the...