Luke 3:3 He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Luke 3:4 As is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: ‚ÄúA voice of one calling in the desert, ‚ÄòPrepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him….
I know you aren’t supposed to talk about your fasting so as to bring attention to yourself, but this is sort of the opposite. For the month of September, I’m going to post to my blog every day. 30 days of posts. And I’m not just going to tell you what I bought at Target…
Two different sort of things happened this weekend that are interesting… I’ve been out in the front yard a lot the past two days. I’ve been trimming bushes, cleaning up mulch, you know, good old fashioned yard work…the whole time burning a ton of sticks over which I later cooked some chicken for the weekly…
Jer. 20:1 ¬? When the priest Pashhur son of Immer, the chief officer in the temple of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things, Jer. 20:2 he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin at the LORD‚Äôs temple. Jer. 20:3 The next day, when Pashhur released…
When you preach, do not teach interesting things. Do not preach great information to help people’s lives be better/happier/fuller/richer/stable or anything! PREACH as if you are speaking of LIFE and DEATH. Preach as if your message MUST be heard and lived out or they’ll die. We have had enough good speaches to improve our quality…
‚ÄúIf anyone carries anything from a public place to a private house on the Sabbath intentionally, he is punishable by death by stoning. ‚Äú Barclay on the Mishnah in the commentary on John 5 So when the pool guy says ‚ÄúThey guy that healed me told me to‚Äù he‚Äôs not just making excuses‚Äìhe‚Äôs defending himself…
When the paralyzed man said other people go down to the pool ahead of him, Jesus didn‚Äôt pat him on the back and pout or ‚Äòrelate to his problems.‚Äô He just ended the problem. It makes me wonder how many times we help people by giving them food or shelter or clothes or whatever and…
Jesus asked the man if he wanted to be well. I kind of see this as the same kind of question He asked Adam when He said, ‚ÄúWhere are you?‚Äù He answers those that cry out to Him, and if people don‚Äôt know to cry out to Him, He gives them a chance to do…
This is a funny video of some outtakes that were a part of Bethel’s video goodies found here
The size of the pool in John 5.2, according to some archeologists, ‚Äúwas trapezoidal in shape, 165 feet (49.5 m) wide at one end, 220 ft. (66 m) wide at the other, and 315 ft. (94.5 m) long, divided by a central partition.‚Äù (http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=1312) We just had our church picnic Sunday night. It was at…
