UPDATE 1: Well, apparently some readers are concerned that I have suggested that Sunday is the Sabbath. This happened because you received this post on Sunday. But I wrote it on the Sabbath/Saturday – not Sunday. I’ll try not to be so mixed up next time. God didn’t change His mind about Sabbath just because…
“You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.” James 2:24 Thursday night, 7 PM. The weekly Bible study at our home. We’re making our way through Genesis, one verse at a time. We read the passage where God establishes the covenant with Abram. We followed the reference as it…
Matthew 25:14-30 Jesus told a story. It was a story about buried treasure. A man decided to take a trip abroad. Before leaving, he called three of this slaves and gave them various amount of money to use while he was gone. When he returned, he found that two of the slaves used the…
For those of you not familiar with Oswald Chambers, I would highly recommend this tiny devotional. Almost every day I do find something in his writing that is right on target. In fact, some days I find myself wary of reading it simply because it is so penetrating. The last two days have been exactly…
“and even if our gospel is veiled” 2 Corinthians 4:4 Months have passes since I had my first taste of a Job crisis. God forced me to confront my trust in false security and selfish independence by stripping away the financial storehouse of my existence. Since that day, I have committed myself to a passionate…
Jesus walks along the rode with his disciples. They come across a blind man. There was no greater calamity in the ancient world than blindness. In this case, the man was well known for the disciples recognize him as a man who was born blind. This is especially cruel. Only terrible evil could case such…
You know how it goes: “Finders keepers, losers weepers” I heard it often enough as a child to know just how painful that little rhyme can be. I think the event that anchored those words forever in my mind was about marbles. My favorite cat’s eye was forgotten after recess. When I remembered, it was…
Did Jesus speak Hebrew? The common understanding and teaching of most theological schools of the West is that Jesus spoke Aramaic, not Hebrew. The reasoning behind this is that Aramaic was the language of the Jews during the captivity in Babylon and that the Jews who returned to Israel after the captivity brought Aramaic home…
Have you brushed up against that moment when you knew that everything was at risk? When you knew that to take a step of obedience would forever alter your connection to God? That moment when you knew that what was most precious to you had to be left behind if your were to seek Him…
But do we really want to be delivered?Delivered means facing reality as it is, no fantasies, no band-aids, no idol protection.It’s interesting that Isaiah the prophet complains that Israel is seeking alliances with its past enemies as though these enemies will now protect them.God is quite provoked by this attempted alliance.He intends to be Israel’s…
