... It’s my cross to bear.” Likewise, when they can’t get their husband to quit snoring: “Well, it’s just my cross to bear.” Robert C. Morgan tells about a woman who had a rattle in the dashboard of her new BMW. She took it to an auto mechanic. He ... can forget those six teachers who were killed on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children in the Sandy Hook Elementary School? Some of those slain teachers literally shielded the children with their ...
Character Sometimes Who's Who doesn't know for sure just what's what! Consider the character of this man who comes to Jesus at night. Nicodemus clearly was a well-connected man yet it is clear he lacks some very vital information. He is remembered here as a "Pharisee," the highest sect among the Jews. We often think of the Pharisees as harsh, hypocritical, and uppity (and certainly there were moments when Jesus heaped scorn on them). Here, however, is a Pharisee, Nicodemus, who does not fit that mold. He ...
