Richard Roberts

Recently talking to a friend who’d just had a conversation with a Jewish rabbi from Israel. The rabbi had shed some new light on the phrase talitha cumi. He said that the word talitha can be translated as “little lamb.” Now, that was interesting to me, because Christian means “little Christ,” and one of the names …

How do we rise up and take what appears to be a “risk” of faith? I believe one of the things we have to do is—like Jairus—ignore the negative words of the scoffers and critics in our lives. Unfortunately, we may find critical people nearby. Jarius had them in his own house. But we don’t …

When we look around the world today, there seems to be instability everywhere…so much, in fact, that it’s easy to think you and I may be dealing with situations that no one has ever faced before. But according to the Bible and the story of Joseph in Genesis 37-50, that’s just not true. If anyone …

Come Up Higher. Mark 5 tells the story of a man named Jairus a ruler of the synagogue whose daughter was on her deathbed. In spite of what many people around him believed, he sought out Jesus to come and heal his little girl. Jesus agreed to come to his house, but on the way …

Joseph had a gift from God to interpret dreams. One day Joseph interpreted a dream for Pharaoh and Pharaoh was so impressed that he made Joseph the number-two man in his government. When Joseph’s family ran out of food during a famine, they wound up at his doorstep on their knees, asking for food. And …