Jesus Doesn't Need Any Simple Alternatives
Jesus said what he meant and didn‚Äôt have any tricks-what I mean by this is when Jesus said ‚Äúyour son will live,‚Äù He did not mean it in some ethereal/spiritual way that he would be risen from the dead at the resurrection. He meant, ‚Äúyour son will live through this illness.‚Äù I know sometimes people…
The Arby's Manager and the BBQ Disciple
I just saw a guy at Arby‚Äôs fumbling with the ketchup dispenser. He was refilling it and having a hard time getting the nozzle on. The manager walked up, didn‚Äôt say a word, put his hands on the nozzle as the guy stepped back, popped it on, and walked off. Never speaking a word. Without…
The Rabbis Hated Women, but Not This Rabbi
The Rabbinic precept ran: ‚ÄúLet no one talk with a woman in the street, no, not with his own wife.‚Äù The Rabbis so despised women and so thought them incapable of receiving any real teaching that they said: ‚ÄúBetter that the words of the law should be burned than deliver to women.‚Äù They had a…
I turned on the radio…
I turned on the radio long enough to hear an advertisement for a tape series on how to live a Biblically based world view, and I thought wow! Is that the goal now? And, turned off my radio. Isn’t that what the Pharisees that crucified Jesus were working on?!
What We Live By
v. 32: Jesus was sustained fully by doing the will of the Father. Even when the disciples brought Him food, He still didn‚Äôt eat it. Our bodies were not made to live on food. 1 Cor 6.13: ‚ÄúFood for the stomach and the stomach for food‚Äù‚Äîbut God will destroy them both. The body is not…
John 4.31-38 and What Really Satisfies
When the disciples come back with food for Jesus, it doesn’t say that He ate. He says that He HAS food and the disciples think that someone brought Him some. Here I am at the end of an hour wasted surfing the internet during my only quiet time of the day, and I realize that…
The Samaritan Woman Gets the Living Water
We have to talk about this Samaritan woman and the living water. Jesus said to her: John 4:10 ¬? Jesus answered her, ‚ÄúIf you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.‚Äù John 4:11 ¬?…
Jesus in the the Land of the Samaritans and this Really Unclean Woman
‚ÄúThen, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, ‚ÄúCome, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?‚Äù‚Äù (John 4:28-29 NIV) Jesus talks to this lady and then she leaves to go tell everyone in town about Him. As she…
Postcard from Cashland
So we just got a postcard in the mail for the previous residents of our house. It should be noted that our house was a foreclosure and we bought it from the bank. The postcard is from CASHLAND, a paycheck loan place in town. It says ‚ÄúBecause we have missed seeing you for a while,…