When we talk about quenching something, we usually talk about quenching a thirst. We talk about quenching a fire. How do we do that? We get buckets of water, and we pour them on. By the time we are done, it is quenched, it is drowned, it is out, and the fire cannot burn anymore. What we have here is […]

Should we look from Isaiah forward to the days of the gospel? We read here of the eyes of the blind opened, the ears of the deaf unstopped, the lame leaping like a deer, the tongue of the dumb singing. Think, for example, of John 9, with Jesus healing the man born blind. Think of Mark 7:31-37, with the man […]

Friends, do not be tempted to think that because in your place and your time, things are not going as happily or as well as you would like to see them, that somehow this is the normal way for the people of God or for their king, the Lord Jesus Christ. And do not think that this is the way […]