I’m reading “Churched” by Matthew Paul Turner right now, and so far I’ve laughed on every single page. Ok, there may have been one page that I didn’t laugh, but I don’t remember which one that was. This line was too funny to me not to share. It’s in reference to a seminary his pastor…
I talked with a guy yesterday morning for a while about Judas being hand-picked by Jesus. I am overwhelmed at the true meaning of sovereignty shown by Jesus. One of THE TWELVE is “a devil‚” and He doesn’t flee or try to take him out! He actually shows him a LOT of mercy. [quote]He called…
‚ÄúThrough your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones. Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I…
Jesus is completely confident in Himself and doesn’t need followers to give Him worth. He makes all of these declarations about who He is throughout John 6, and then finishes by saying, “Do you want to leave too?” to His closest disciples. There were a couple times in the desert of Exodus that God told…
John 6:66-71After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. 67 So Jesus said to the Twelve, ‚ÄúDo you want to go away as well?‚Äù 68 Simon Peter answered him, ‚ÄúLord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, 69 and we have believed, and have…
It‚Äôs been quite a week in our neighborhood. Tuesday night we had about 50 Jr. High kids come down and help out on our street. They picked up tons of sticks and bundled them all up and raked a lot of grass and leaves into bags. It was good to walk down the street and…
When Jesus said, “You will always have the poor with you.” He was not giving an excuse or being overwhelmed. Many people read this like it’s Jesus’ commentary on how we should care for the poor. “Aware of this, Jesus said to them, ‘Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing…
I did a bad thing by starting off my quiet time reading ‚ÄúThe ABC‚Äôs of Financial Freedom‚Äù this morning. It is a book on Christian Stewardship. It immediately put me into a critical mode when I read a few quotes: You and I should do some Christ-centered vision casting of our own and start thinking…
There is something about this discourse on bread that makes me not so much want to talk about bread and what the bread means or what it means to eat His flesh, but just about the more general idea of how Jesus taught. These parables almost put you to the point that you could know…
‚ÄúThen the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, ‚ÄúHow can this man give us his flesh to eat?‚Äù Jesus said to them, ‚ÄúI tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my…
