It was rather tedious, but in the end, a rather fascinating task to work through the genealogies of Genesis and tack on a few historical marks. God is love. Love is relationships. When my wife recounts some bit of our family history it may start with, “Jeremiah was a baby […]
People are amazing. A key quality of people is our ability to communicate. We are total communication machines. We use the term “body language.” One’s posture, facial expression, look of the eye, vocal tone can instantly convey joy, disappointment, anger, contentment, hate, love… It may reinforce the spoken word or […]
John closed his record of the life of Jesus like this: “And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that […]
There are very few chapters in this work that can be considered stand-alone. There is an underlying theme that is being built, rather like building a house or a cabinet. It needs to be built in an orderly fashion. You don’t start with the roof; you start with a foundation. […]
The purpose of the Church is to present the gospel to the world. We look to the early chapters of Acts and Revelation 14 as models of how the work is to be completed. We look to the “latter rain” of the Holy Spirit to provide the power and the […]
“Where your treasure is; there will your heart be also.” (Matt 6:21) This phrase has become a common cliche. As such it has been relegated to the file of common knowledge and avoids further scrutiny. I have just noticed something implied in this text. First, we need to define what […]
There are some jaw dropping vignettes into the corruption, even vile attributes of the church (spiritual community) Christ belonged to. Saturday night Simon had a party in honor of Jesus. Things were going well until this woman came in and spilled a 12-ounce container of exquisite perfume on Him. It […]
As a rather young girl, she was started down a path of dire sin. It was a path she did not wish to pursue. She, at one point, was under the control of seven demons. Demons can exact heavy demands. Inside, Mary wanted desperately to be cleared of the demons, […]
I am going to speak briefly regarding resources. The most primary resource is thought. Everything else we wish to call a resource becomes a resource as we apply thought to the accomplishment of our desires. Examples might be pencil and paper, people, money, real estate, time. Thought is required to […]
