Patience. A common saying in my house is that “Patience is a virtue which I have not yet acquired.” Another is “Don’t ask God for patience!” The answer to that prayer is,

Mary was chosen by God to be the mother of Jesus. She saw Him grow up, listened to Him teach, and then watched Him die and helped bury His body, not knowing

Editor’s Note; John A. Broadus is called by some the father of American expository preaching.  Charles Spurgeon deemed Broadus the “greatest of living preachers.” Church historian Albert Henry Newman said “perhaps the greatest