CC Bible Study Middletown NJ

  Dear Friends, this will be my last post on this the Christ Church Bible Blog website. I will continue to publish readings and reflecti...

    Wishes teach us that we could have been something or someone other than who we are. We became who we are not because we e...

  In January of 2007, The Washington Post videotaped the reactions of commuters at a D.C. Metro (subway) stop to the music of a v...

              Keep Awake for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, o...

Do we like surprises? As I think about it, I would probably answer, “it depends.” I know I like to surprise others and must admit to hav...

  How many of us grew up thinking of God as one whose “performance standards” were rigid and unbending? Weren’t many of us taught to be...

The kind of waiting Matthew is encouraging through this parable ( Matthew 25:1-13 ) is difficult. Waiting for something way over due, wai...

We don’t have to look far to see the hypocrisy of “Do as I say not as I do,” play out in today’s geopolitics and our American culture....

It was only natural for Jesus to be prepared for the question, after all the Pharisees and Jewish elite were lying in wait and trying to...

  In his parables Jesus invites the listener to be part of the story by relating explicit scenarios that were relevant to the liste...