When I was 18 years old, I enlisted to serve in the US Navy. My parents, particularly my father, were quite proud of me. I remember leaving, going through MEPS (the military entrance processing ...

The long form speaks of Jesus calling his first four disciples: Peter, Andrew, James and John. Jesus is beginning his mission. But it’s not just his mission.

“A new teaching with authority” (Mark 1:28). 1 Sam 1:9-20; Mark 1:21-28 In Mark, after Jesus calls his first disciples he immediately begins his public ministry. It is noteworthy that his ...

When Jesus calls his first disciples they immediately leave behind their occupation and family to follow him (Mk 1:16-20). When an unclean spirit speaks to him, he silences it and expels it from ...

This is particularly well done in the scene where Jesus calls his disciples to become “fishers of men,” as Willa the cat is just as excited as the fishermen by their large catch of fish.

An answer, he says, arrived in his mailbox the same day: money for work he'd long forgotten. "At the end of that, I had, like, $1,100. And three months later, I got a call from Dallas asking me to ...

This is particularly well done in the scene where Jesus calls his disciples to become “fishers of men,” as Willa the cat is just as excited as the fishermen by their large catch of fish ...