God

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 […]

Genesis

Genesis 28:12 | Life Comes Fast

I was reflecting about when I graduated from college and I was sitting in rush hour traffic on my way to my first day of my first “career” job. I started crying. Unusual for me. I was about to start a corporate […]

Genesis

Genesis 6:3 | Can Satan Thwart God’s Plans?

God knows everything. There is nothing new for Him to learn. That idea is not really comprehensible for me because I spend every day learning something new and the more I learn the more I realize how little I actually know. As […]

Genesis

Genesis 5:1 | Our Family Tree

Genesis 5 is a chapter that many skip right over maybe even asking themselves “What is this about”. Some people love genealogies and they will tell stories they have found about great great grand relatives that lived in a certain place or […]

Genesis

Genesis 4:7 | God’s Mercy to a Murderer

God after the fall continued his fellowship with Adam, Eve, and their Children. I imagine that the relationship was similar to that of the days in the garden where God would be present in some form. God’s intent was to build a […]

Genesis

Genesis 5:24 | Enoch Abducted by God

Enoch walked with God and then God abducted him. He never returned home. Genesis the first book of the Bible has a long list of the patriarchs of the pre flood world. In this list the author casually passes over the seventh […]

Isaiah

Isaiah 1:18 | Unchanging Reconciliation

There is a common mistake many make when approaching the Bible to learn about God and his nature. That mistake is that the God of the Old Testament is somehow not the same as the God of the New Testament. God is […]

Exodus

Exodus 7:4 | The Light’s Great Act

There is a misconception in the culture that the God of the Old Testament is a vengeful, angry, judgmental God. And the God of the New Testament is loving and wants everyone to do whatever they want to be happy.  The result […]

Matthew -

Matthew 10:13 | Be Worthy of the King

In the gospel of Matthew Jesus instructs his disciples on how to carry the good news of God to people and he speaks of being worthy. Jesus tells the disciples that they will be worthy of the needs provided by the people […]