WHEN RESPONSIBLE PARENTS LOSE SIGHT OF JESUS

In the Life of Christ “Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” —Luke 2:49 One reason I appreciate Luke’s account of Jesus in the temple is that nobody in the story feels artificial. Mary and Joseph are righteous, faithful parents, yet for aContinue reading “WHEN RESPONSIBLE PARENTS LOSE SIGHT OF JESUS”

WHEN GOD’S CHILDREN BEGIN TO OWN THEIR FAITH

In the Life of Christ “Why were you searching for me? Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” — Luke 2:49 Luke gives us remarkably little information about Jesus between His infancy and the beginning of His public ministry. That makes Luke 2:41–52 especially valuable. Here, for one brief moment, theContinue reading “WHEN GOD’S CHILDREN BEGIN TO OWN THEIR FAITH”