Preparing to Study the Word of God: Get the Big Picture Forest and Trees. Both are beautiful and mysterious. I walk through a forest and can view the conglomerated beauty of all the trees, rocks and fauna, ………..the moss, the dear trails,………..the ponds and marshes, ………..the streams and creeks and rivers, ………..the ravines and hills … More Plans and Projects for Multiple Readings of the Gospel of John
The word of God is inspired. There are a lot of ways to discuss what that means exactly, but let me offer one suggestion. When we say that God’s word is inspired we mean that it says what God wants it to say. Another way to say this is that God used the human authors … More Know Your God (Psalm 84)
Read Psalm 28 A Prayer for Help, and Praise for Its Answer. The terms, metaphors and names of God in the 28th Psalm: LORD (vs. 1, 5, 6), YHWH My Rock (vs. 1), the LORD is my strength (vs. 7), the LORD is their strength (vs. 8) (or “… His people’s strength”) … More The Strength of the Weak
Finally! The new book, in process for 40 years, now cataloged, revised, refined, and expanded; every reference checked and rechecked and rechecked again over the last two years of covid; literally thousands of hours of work invested—it’s DONE! I have great hopes that this book will be a powerful stimulus to faith and holiness among … More The New Book Has Been Published!
We had a wonderful worship service this morning at Pioneer Church. Pastor Trell Ross gave a powerful exposition of Luke 8:1-21. Pastor Brogan designed a cogent and praise filled liturgy for the service and Gabe Daugherty tied the service together using a sparsity of well-chosen words to lead us through repentance, confession, praise, assurance and … More Finding Who God Is
I am working on a catalog of the names and terms for God in the Bible. It is a type of concordance for the Name that is above every name. In the Old Testament, there are four primary names for God (Transliterated from Hebrew to English: Adon / Adonai, Elohim, Yahweh, and Ruach) upon which … More Their Story is for Our Story to be Better
You are reading John 10 and come across Jesus saying “I am the good shepherd” (John 10:11). You think of a number of books that might be helpful to explore the idea of Jesus being the “Good Shepherd.” Phillip Keller’s classic work, A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23, or perhaps Timothy S. Laniak’s While Shepherds … More The “Shepherd” Group
One of the fortunate effects of our new COVID world is the opportunity for writers and artists to ply their trade or hobby with undistracted time. For me, it has proved to be a time of reflection that has produced the manuscripts for three new books. This one I hope to send off to a … More New Book Coming
Friday is for Heart Songs Marketers and mass media, greeting cards and department stores tell us an almost endless number of things about Christmas. Christmas is about giving. Christmas is family. Christmas is togetherness. Christmas is peace and joy. Christmas is about children and toys and etc., etc. Don’t buy it. None of those things … More Beyond Narnia: Always Christmas, Never Winter (Updated from 2011)
Second Monday of December, Christmas 2021 The Importance of the Names of Christ The Old Testament makes it clear that it is God alone who can save men and women from sin and the corrupting influence of sin: Genesis 49:18 2 Kings 19:15-19 2 Chron. 14:11 2 Chronicles 20:5-12 … More Beyond Narnia: Always Christmas, Never Winter
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