Hans Boersma

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  • Dec 20, 2024
    Let’s recall Anna the Prophetess, the eighty-four-year-old widow who was at Christ’s presentation at the temple. St. Luke tells us how night and day, she “departed...
  • Aug 6, 2024
    Does he not know? Does he not care? Why did he make us get into this boat? Why has he left us rowing all alone? It is nearly morning, and we have been fighting all night long. Does...
  • Feb 23, 2024
    It is meet and right that Lent should start with Matthew 4. Its first sentence sums up not just Lent but the entire Christian life. “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into...
  • Jan 29, 2024
    Jesus is Lord of the sabbath. That is what the verse immediately preceding this healing narrative tells us (Mark 2:28). It would be a strange thing for the Lord of the sabbath to...