Job

Job 1:7 | Satan’s Limits

Who is Satan and what is he up to? He first gets his name in the Bible in the book of Job when God assembles the host of heaven. God is holding court and the Bible gives the serpent a name. A […]

Acts

Acts 7:57 | They Don’t Want to Hear

The first Christian martyr after Jesus was a man named Stephen. An angry mob killed him unlawfully. Throughout history, people have died the same way. In American history we call it a lynching. In the Middle Ages it was a pitchfork mob […]

Job

Job 1:1 | The Upright Priestly King

The book of Job as found in the Bible is a long, hard-to-understand, and perplexing book in the Old Testament. What jumps out right away is that Job is an innocent man. He remains faithful to his wife, his family, and God. […]

1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 13:8 | When the Church Gets Wild

So you visited a church and things got crazy. People dancing in the pews, speaking in tongues, or just being generally chaotic during prayer and preaching. What should you think about this? You came to the right place. I am going to […]

Hebrews

Hebrews 10:24 | Provoked to Good Works

We need each other. Not the needy kind where one person never contributes, but the kind soldiers on the battlefield need to march forward together. The rugged individual is often rugged and haggard. Far more can be accomplished when we work together. […]

Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 6:7 | Teach Them Diligently

How much God is too much God? Do you go to church once a month or twice a week? Do you talk about God with family and friends and they wonder if you’re becoming a monk? In wider society, God, church, and […]

Mark

Mark 9:42 | Millstone Around the Neck

Whenever a crime involves children, everyone gets rightfully enraged. We all understand that lost innocence can never be restored. Adult problems and selfishness invading the world of children is a grave travesty. This emotion will often find responses on social media quoting […]

Mark

Mark 12:17 | Christ and Nationalism

Church and government politics overlap all the time. On one issue people demand separation of church and state. On the next they leverage the church to expand the state. It is quite the conundrum. Everyone wants to bring Jesus in to support […]

Isaiah

Isaiah 2:2 | Peace in Jerusalem

Why is the Middle East always in the news? Most of it is about war. Someone is always attacking someone. My entire life it has been this way. Israel specifically always seems to have the attention. Maybe there is good reason why […]