This Old Testament ritual may seem strange at first glance, but it paints a powerful picture of what Christ has done for us, and what takes place in baptism.Two birds were involved in the cleansing ceremony for someone healed of a skin disease. One bird was sacrificed over fresh (running)...

Today’s verses describe God’s prescription for a priest helping someone with a serious skin condition in the time of Moses. The person had to be separate from the community until they were healed. In the instructions, there was a component of atonement and a component of cleansing and being restored...

In the verses preceding this passage, the writer tells us that even after Jesus’s ministry, death, and resurrection that there were some disciples who didn’t believe Jesus was the Son of God. How could there be doubt in anyone’s mind of who Jesus was? Indeed, there were doubters, despite walking...

Are we walking with the Lord and yet remain unbaptized? The beginning of this passage states that we are to repent of our sins. The next statement is to turn to God. Whether we believe we can have a relationship with God without being baptized, what matters is what God...

Confidence…we build that onto things that make us feel safe and bring that sense of security in our lives - a relationship, a job, finances. The tendency we have sometimes to have full dependency on these things instead of God will drive us to having our own “Nile river”. The...