Dysfunctional Families

I recently gave a sermon-lecture on the implications of Genesis 4:1 for family relationships.  I thought you might like to hear it.  It’s rather long – about an hour and a half – with some discussion at the end, but I think you will have an appreciation for this one verse that you might not…

Herman Who?

Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. Hebrews 5:11 NASB Hard to explain – Is the good news hard to explain?  Is the story of Yeshua difficult to make intelligible?  Is your experience with grace exhausting to put into words?  I wouldn’t…

Conversations on the Phone

As I continue to call readers, I discover so many needs and blessings. Just so that you know what to pray about for the rest of the community, here’s what I have on my notes so far: Cindy wants to be discipled.  Is there another godly woman out there who would be willing to start…

Drunken Stupor

Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. Hebrews 5:11 NASB Dull – After a few glasses of a good wine, intellectual acumen suffers.  The edge has been taken off reason and the arguments aren’t quite as sharp.  That’s when Proverbs 22:29 applies…

Rebels’ Reward

But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you have not believed Me, to treat Me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” Numbers 20:12 NASB Not believed Me – It seems like such a trifling…

Seriously

My little children, I am writing these things to you that you may not sin.  And if anyone does sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; 1 John 2:1 NASB May not sin – Seriously now, does anyone out there really think it is possible not to sin?  My guess…

The More We See

the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked. 1 John 2:6  NASB In the same manner as – No one who claims to know Jesus will deny the truth of John’s statement.  If we say we have fellowship with Yeshua and that we participate…

In The Long Run

“this is the man who hears the word, and the worry of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.” Matthew 13:22 (R. T. France translation) Becomes unfruitful – In the Bible, the race doesn’t go to the swift.  It goes to the diligent.  Abraham stepped out for God…