Lazarevic Ministries

It should show two men — one American, one Serbian — standing on the plateau at Pranjani in the summer of 1944, looking at the dirt airstrip their hands built together. The American is a pilot, maybe twenty-two, still wearing his flight suit, blinking in the August light after weeks in the mountains. The Serbian… Read more

This is worth sitting with. These are not credulous people — they are first-century Jewish men and women who understood death as well as any people in history. They had watched the crucifixion. They knew what the Romans did, and they knew it worked. The report from the women at the empty tomb is greeted… Read more

Moses knows he will not cross the river. He gives this generation — the children of the wilderness wanderers, born after the exodus, knowing Egypt only as a story — the fullest articulation of what they are about to carry into the land. And the central anxiety of the passage is not military. It is… Read more

Boaz notices Ruth working. This is not a trivial observation. Boaz is a wealthy landowner at harvest season — his fields are full of workers and overseers and the organized chaos of grain collection. He has legitimate business to attend to. He could walk the field and see only the harvest operation, which is what… Read more

CHAPTER SIX Solomon asks for the wrong thing. Or rather — Solomon is in a position where he could ask for anything, and what makes the moment extraordinary is what he chooses not to ask for. God appears to Solomon in a dream at Gibeon and says: “Ask for whatever you want me to give… Read more