What if idolatry still offends God? What if the first commandment still counts? What if even though you go to church every Sunday, the Father still hates your obsession with… what is it for you… how do you finish this sentence? Your Sports Your Leasure Your Comfort Your plans Your car Your freedom Your wife [...]
As I promised – today we start in earnest. The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's. - Song of Songs 1:1 The Song of Songs… At first glance, you may think we're looking at the title and author. Well – yes and no. Check out the pattern: Song of Songs. Does that remind you of [...]
As I read the parable of the soils the other day, it struck me that in three out of four cases the seed, which Jesus tells us in the Word of the kingdom, brings forth no fruit. It reminds me of another place where Jesus spoke a similar idea. thus invalidating the word of God [...]
Before we dig in today, I want to state that this is one of my core teachings. I share this message when I have the opportunity because I truly believe it’s a missing note in the current chord of Christianity. If we get this idea planted in our hearts and stop resisting this wonderful gift [...]
This is a wonderful worship song, that you may have heard or sung already, but this video includes the story of its origin. It's a wonderful testimony of God's hand and the power of worship. Join me this morning (or whenever) raising your own Hallelujah. Blessings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awkO61T6i0k Raise a Hallelujah Bethel Music, Jonathan David Helser I [...]
He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house. For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all [...]
He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house. - Hebrews 3:2 If we go back to the scene in Isaiah 6 as discussed a few days back, you’ll remember I said I can hear Jesus saying “Here am I send Me,” to the Father’s call. And what’s [...]
One last bit of background before we jump into the verse by verse (mostly) look at the Song. The Song is a short book as compared to other books like Genesis with its 50 chapters or Isaiah with its 66. It is made up of 8 chapters and a total of 117 verses. It would [...]
I'm quitting NetFlix. I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts this week, The Holy Post, with Phil Vischer, Skye Jithani and Christian Taylor. They look at news articles and give a Christian perspective with thoughtfulness and humor. They covered a story in this episode about the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why. It’s the [...]
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. - Matthew 5:3 On my old blog, I spent a few weeks talking about the kingdom of God. I’m not going to re-post that series right now, but I thought this one post held some fun insight into the what the Kingdom [...]