“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. //Those who follow after Jesus will do greater works than Jesus? Is that really what this…

And [Jesus, Mary and Joseph were] there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. //Jesus was apparently from Nazareth, but prophecy foretold that Israel’s savior would be born in…

So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests. //One day, said Jesus in parable, a king prepared a wedding feast for his son and sent out his servants to call those…

And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him. //Levi, elsewhere called Matthew, held a contemptible office. He was a tax collector, sitting in the tax office. He was…

Dark and yet hope-filled, this book carries you along on the journey of a young pastor through gangs, prisons, and illegal immigrants. These are desperate people. But these are the people–like the huckster tax collector Matthew in the Bible–that Jesus made a point of befriending.

And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and…

And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him. //Continued from yesterday: Suppose, in the story of Abraham sacrificing his…