“I am with Child.” How did those words fall upon the ears and heart of Joseph? Imagine the questions he must have asked and the answers Mary gave him. Betrothal was a sacred right, an agreement and covenant arrived at and legally sealed between two families. Joseph had entered into...

There’s a new world coming, with a new world order. Are we excited yet? “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the...

Jacob was a man with a habit of making his own way. It started with his birth, which he helped to facilitate with his grasp on the ankle of twin brother Esau. He hitched a ride into the light and came out ready to angle for position and privilege. He...

Joseph the carpenter wanted to do the right thing, the gentle thing, the merciful thing. His betrothed, his wife-to-be, was found to be with child. Her pregnancy, by appearances, came out of order. He had not yet taken her to be his wife, and he certainly had not known her...

Pontius Pilate’s wife had a dream. It was, it seems, a graphically powerful night vision about Jesus. It so startled her that she felt compelled to send word of it to her husband who was the Roman governor of Judea and Jerusalem. The report of this comes to us in...