It’s not your connection. The image above is never going to finish loading. It is there to represent how incomplete is my (and likely your) understanding of God. Getting to know a mere human being you love is a lifelong exercise. Our ability to truly know them seems governed by the time we spend observing…
Read moreSins of the Parents and Sour Grapes
I try my best to not look around me and judge others. Far be it from me to fall into the trap of the Pharisee Jesus described in Luke 18:11 “God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.” However, I am susceptible for trying to…
Read moreBiblical Roots
Our vernacular has changed in the last 50 years and I am a first-hand witness. In my youth it was far more common to have phrases and idioms used to make a point many of which had their roots in the Bible. Some of the more popular ones have survived and my guess is most…
Read moreWe need saved from…God?
Given the choice, and wanting to avoid fire and brimstone or perhaps what some misguided people, even Sunday school teachers, present as a state of perpetual nothingness, I would choose to be saved. Saved from a judgement proceeding during which I will certainly be found guilty. Old Testament prophet Hosea says of people at the…
Read moreThank Joseph for the enslavement of the Jews
We all know the history of Moses freeing the Jews from Pharaoh’s evil enslavement. But did you ever wonder how they came to be slaves in the first place? Genesis 47 catalogs the spiral the Jews experienced during the seven years of famine of which Joseph (not Mary’s husband, Joseph of the coat-of-many colors fame)…
Read moreMoses had a Second Set of Tablets
No, I’m not referring to the very funny scene in “The History of the World – Part one” where Mel Brooks, dressed as Moses, drops one of three tablets he is holding as he proclaims, “The Lord has given unto you, these fifteen (breaks tablet) … Ten! Ten Commandments for all to obey.” The commandments…
Read morePeople went to heaven before Jesus
The empty tomb and the hundreds of eye witnesses to Jesus walking the earth for 40 days after coming back from the dead testify to his overcoming death. His accession to heaven shows Jesus returned to whence he came (yes, I said whence!) Blinding Saul on the road to Damascus shows Jesus can act upon…
Read moreCall him Yeshua (or perhaps “Yeh-Soos”)
You know the name Jesus the Christ, the anointed one, the chosen one, the Messiah, whose name literally means “the Lord is Salvation” and “Yahweh Saves”. But did you know since the letter J was not part of any language until the 1500’s? How his name was pronounced then may be different than you’ve learned…
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