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Luke, the lone Gentile gospel writer, displays a heightened sense of excitement as Jesus “set his face to go to Jerusalem” (v. 51). The very concept of God sending his Son into this world to die for us was totally foreign to the world of that day.  The simple words of Jesus foreshadow a goal the world still has trouble understanding.

EDMOND, Okla. (RNS) — A high-tech Bible in your pocket?

In 2018, it’s a reality for hundreds of millions of smartphone users around the world.

(RNS) — There’s a moment near the beginning of the documentary film “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” where producer Margy Whitmer muses, “We had a director who once said to me, if you take all of the elements that make good television and do the exact opposite, you have ‘Mister Rogers' Neighborhood’: low production values, simple set, an unlikely star,” she said.

“Yet it worked, because it was saying something really important.”

Many of the choices we all face involve choosing between right and wrong, but the toughest decisions may be between good and good. In today's study passages, Jesus says “no” because of God's ultimate priority.

It was inevitable. Jesus had been teaching his recruits about God's grace and demonstrating the kingdom way of living in the real world, so they should have suspected there would be a sending out.

Choices have consequences, whether it be eating a second donut or buying a new car. Then there are the really big choices such as honesty, marriage and money management. But the biggest choice of all is God!

We forget – it’s either a human flaw or a convenient habit. Our forgetfulness means we often repeat the mistakes of previous generations and we settle for what is easy or convenient to the moment, learning the same hard lessons over and over.

It’s no secret: In most places, churches slow down for the summer. How can you continue to be engaged with your church and community? Here are some ideas.

What is the secret to being a truly good national leader?

The biblical account of Israel's kings is a saga of failure because, to the human eye, power appears too often as truth.

When we talk about the United States we cannot avoid the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, our documents of origin and vision. Truth involves both heart and head. Ignore either one and the other becomes compromised.