By Ron Thwaites
Article
April 2013
Articles > Biblical/theological
Blind Bartimaeus
Why did Jesus go through Jericho (Mark 10:46-52)? It was a city under a curse! (Joshua 6:26). Surely he did so for the same reason he came to this sin-cursed earth (Genesis 3:17): he knew that sinners needed him. A tax collector though wealthy needed something more than this world could give, as…
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By Ron Thwaites
Article
April 2012
Articles > Biblical/theological
What the priests saw!
What the priests saw! The priest stood before the altar of incense, the golden censer in his hand. Born of the tribe of Levi to be a priest, this was his big moment, the day for which he had waited. There were, by this time, so many priests in Israel that only once in…
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