By Michael J. Brooks Dr. J.D. Gray served for many years as pastor at First Baptist Church, New Orleans. He often delighted ...

Readers might be tempted to skip the first 17 verses of Matthew’s Gospel. After all, it’s just a genealogy of who “begat” whom, a list of names we don’t recognize and can’t pronounce. We’re tempted to ...

Rahab Refuge is named after the biblical Rahab, a prostitute who hid Jewish spies before the Battle of Jericho. “Rahab was someone who was trafficked,” Carpenter said. “She lived in the wall ...