Definition of Christmas

From the infamous Wikipedia…enjoy and Merry Christmas, Gary
Christmas is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. The date of the celebration is traditional, and is not considered to be his actual date of birth. Christmas festivities often combine the commemoration of Jesus’ birth with various secular customs, many of which have been influenced [...]

Zechariah’s Silence

Since our last class, I’ve pondered Zechariah’s questioning of the angel, Gabriel, and Gabriel’s reply — in particular the response that Zechariah would be rendered mute.  As some in our class pointed out, Zechariah’s question (Luke 1:18) was natural and not that different from Abram’s question in Genesis 15:8 or, for that matter, from Mary’s question [...]

The Gospel Of Luke

To start some more blogging on our site, I thought it would interesting to read what Wikipedia had to say about the Gospel of Luke we are studying. Here is what I found.
The Gospel of Luke is a synoptic Gospel, and the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament. [...]