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Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: Reaching Our Potential
For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. It has been testified somewhere, “What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you care
Continue reading...Mountainside Sermon – Matthew 5:1-12
I’ve heard some pretty amazing sermons in my life. I even studied one in American history, Jonathan Edward’s Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Sermons have moved people to good and evil
Continue reading...Temptation – Matthew 4:1-11
How do you deal with temptation? The easiest way, it seems, is to give in to it, but that leads to the saddest of lives. God uses our conscience to help us say no to temptation to sin. Adam said yes, and
Continue reading...Jesus and the Spirit – Matthew 3:11-17
My senior year in high school was amazing from the standpoint of learning more about being a Christian. I was sharing my faith and people were responding with challenges to my theology. Can you really
Continue reading...Going Through the Motions – Matthew 3:1-12
Yes, there really is a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” musical soundtrack and in the overture Buffy sings about going through the motions: “Every single night the same arrangement. I go out
Continue reading...Oh, This Jesus! – Matthew 2:13-23
Matthew’s great concern is to show us that Jesus is the fulfillment of all the Old Testament prophecies about Messiah. He has fulfilled the prophecy of Micah by being born in Bethlehem, David’s
Continue reading...Our Own Magi Journey – Matthew 2:1-12
There are a lot of unanswered questions about the Magi or wise men who came to visit Jesus when he was still living in Bethlehem, not even two years old. Who were they? Did they have a teaching from Daniel
Continue reading...Uniting the Human and the Divine – Matthew 1:18-25
Greek mythology is rife with tales of the gods having sexual relationships with humans and producing demigods. Some Bible students even believe that Genesis 6 depicts fallen angels having relations with
Continue reading...A Spotty Heritage – Matthew 1:2-17
What does your genealogy show about you? Does having bad people in your ancestry mean you are a bad person or that you should be ashamed. I recently saw a woman who called in to a talk show for a contest
Continue reading...No More Worthy Subject – Matthew 1:1
The first words of any book will either make you want to read the book or put it down. Those first words need to grab you and not only that, but give you some idea of where you’re going in the journey
Continue reading...Knowledge as Salvation a Heresy – Colossians 2:15-19
In an ancient text, Pistis Sophia, possibly written between the 3rd and 4th centuries AD, the risen Jesus had spent eleven years speaking with his disciples, teaching them only the lower mysteries. After
Continue reading...Don’t Abandon This Gospel – Colossians 2:6-15
It is so tempting to abandon or water down the true gospel message of Christ. Human ingenuity always thinks it has a better idea of how to live out God’s plan. Sometimes we get too focused on one
Continue reading...Firstborn of All Creation – Colossians 1:15-20
In my several conversations with Jehovah’s Witnesses (see here for an example, but be warned, it’s long) it is inevitable that they get to their focus on Jesus not being God, but God’s
Continue reading...A Lengthy Correspondence with a Jehovah’s Witness
The following letters are a series of correspondences in 1990 between me and a woman named Christie. These sprang out of a request of her aunt’s that I read some literature Christie sent her and respond
Continue reading...Trustworthy and True: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 22:6-13)
Trustworthy and true. Do you want things like that in your life? Isn’t it amazing to have people you can trust and who know the truth and will always tell it to you? These are the kind of people
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