Time To Leave

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen  1 Peter 1:1 Apostle – God is a verb.  He is all action.  Even His Name, blessed be He, is a form of the verb “to be”.  He is the great I…

Defeated?

Think about what is really guaranteed in life. What is one hundred percent certain? The answer is a pretty short list. The joke used to be dying and paying taxes. I’m not so sure about the paying taxes part, but dying, that’s certain. Not one of us will escape this guarantee. What else comes to…

Animalia

male and female he created them  Genesis 1:27 Male and Female – The difference between human beings and animals is so important to our entire perspective that it cannot be overemphasized.  The world teaches that we are merely a higher evolution of animals, not distinctly different in origin or essence.   The Bible has a very…

Hebrew Gospels and the Mother Tongue of Jesus

It is the commonly accepted scholarly opinion that Jesus spoke Aramaic as his native tongue.  This theory has so dominated Christian thinking that even Mel Gibson’s movie, The Passion, portrays Jesus as an Aramaic speaking Jew.  Ask almost anyone what language Jesus spoke from birth, and the answer you will get is “Aramaic.” Almost anyone,…

Stuck In The Middle With You

Hence a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, so that they become one flesh. Genesis 2:24 One Flesh – Everything important happens in the first three chapters of Genesis*.  Sometimes what’s important isn’t quite as obvious in our language, so we need to take a look at the insights of…