As a child I would sometimes confuse zucchini and cucumber. They kind of look similar if you don’t note the fine details. But they are very different. The way
In my last post I said that Genesis 1 reveals God’s mission to establish an orderly and beautiful world where everything is blessed and thriving governed by humans who are
In the post “Purpose” that I did back in August, I talked a little bit about how Genesis 1 is God’s mission statement. In this post I want to
This week at the Bible study I’m teaching, one of the men asked about Matthew 6:13, “Lead me not into temptation, but deliver me from evil.” I’ve heard this
The word Christian literally means “Christ-like.” By that definition there aren’t any. 🙂 Jesus the Christ is wholly unique. There is no one like Him in all of history.
Let’s say that the tithe tests how basic you are, how reactive you are to material concerns. This next test asks, “how acidic are you?” What is your threshold for fire? The test is Jesus’ question in the garden of Gethsemane the night He was
A litmus test measures the ph of a solution. You dip a paper strip into the solution and depending on the color the strip turns you know how acidic or alkaline the solution is. There are two instructions in scripture that I think act as a
In my last post, I pointed out that Jesus answered the question the expert at the Law asked with The Parable of the Good Samaritan. He did not offer an answer to the unspoken question of “How do I love God?” He answered the question
“Hear O Israel! The Lord Our God is One. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” In Luke 10 Jesus has a conversation with an “expert in the Law.” The lawyer rightly identifies
Prayer is the way we approach God. Our eagerness to draw near is a measure of how we are doing with the first Rule: Love the Lord your God with all your heart. Jesus taught on how to pray and what prayer should and should
