zac | October 26, 2007
Some of you may know that my lovely wife, Mandy, is a twin. These past few days have been rough; Mandy’s twin brother, Mickey, passed away last Sunday. We both got to spend some time in Phoenix this week while my sister ably cared for the kids. It was good to be present as a [...]
zac | October 18, 2007
We refer to most everyone in the New Testament with a single name. It was common, however, to have descriptors attached to names for clarity. This would not have been like a surname is to us today, but rather distinctions that separated one similarly named individual from another. A common descriptor is the hometown descriptor. [...]
zac | October 11, 2007
Due to a sweet turn of events, I was able to attend my first game at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado on Sunday. I have been a Broncos fan since about the time I arrived on earth and seeing a home game was quite a treat. The in-conference rivalry between the Broncos [...]
zac | October 4, 2007
Some of the things we read about are meant to be symbolic. Some things have intentional literary meaning: crafted by the author to display a not-so-obvious reality. Other stories are more poetic: written to be linguistically beautiful. There are still other things we may read that are simply an accurate description of what happened. When [...]
