Bible Study

Jude

Jude 1:23 | Show Mercy and Save with Fear

There is a popular motivational quote “No Mercy; No Fear” that is applied in hard situations like war. Situations where it is time to act and ignore the consequences to those around you. Not surprisingly the Bible demands another approach. Instead of […]

Jude

Jude 1:12 | Shepherds of Selfishness

There has been a growing divide in the church that Christians should talk about more. A divide that in the years following covid has become accelerated and more obvious. The divide I am talking about is what Jude called out in his […]

Christmas John

John 1:1 | THE WORD

The most beloved of all the Disciples, John, writes to us his gospel and he does not start his gospel with a baby Jesus in a manager. The birth of Jesus in his Gospel is much earlier than Bethlehem. John goes back […]

Easter John

John 3:18 | Who is God to Judge?

The Old Testament God is so vengeful and hateful. What right does God have to judge when we are just trying to be good people and live our best lives? Look at this command from God in Exodus. It is awful because […]

John

John 10:11 | Jesus is Shockingly Confrontational

My favorite Biblical view of Jesus is the Good Shepherd. I think this view of Jesus is less popular and less understood in western culture due to the fact that more people live in cities and have never had to care for […]

Galatians

Galatians 1:23 | Evil Transformed

There is a narrative that Hollywood likes to write about around the idea that people don’t ever really change. Can people change? Can the bad guy really become a good guy? Or are we bound by the nature of who we are? […]

John

John 5:24 | Relationship not Religion

Jesus as recorded in the Bible continues his ministry performing miracles and his visits are the equivalent of health care for those that are broken and sick. But his purpose is not simply to heal people. The healings are used to give […]

John

John 8:10 | I am not here to Judge

John 8 opens with the Pharisees bringing before Jesus a woman “caught” in adultery. The Pharisees came to trap Jesus trying to find some way to condemn him. They would bring him questions or situations that would force him to choose between […]

John

John 14:15 | Love Me

What makes a Christian a Christian? Does following Jesus Christ restrict life to a burdensome set of rules? Why do followers of Jesus attempt to live lives based on out of date rules of the Bible? Do they do this out of […]