Doesn’t it seem weird that we approach our relationship with God so differently than our approach to our relationship with our girlfriend, bros, or any inanimate object? What I mean specifically: in regards to inanimate objects – my sons bought some AstroJax. They are super cool and amazing things. When they brought them home, we…
Hosea 2:11 I will put an end to all her celebration: her annual religious festivals, monthly new moon celebrations, and weekly Sabbath festivities – all her appointed festivals. Look at what is on this list–It’s all of the religious things that Israel was doing! Somebody might say, “Wait, didn’t God ask them to do all of these religious things?”…
Matthew 6 (you should read this whole chapter first) Matthew 6 It is so CRAZY to read this stuff Jesus says about not worrying about money! I keep reading through Jesus’ teachings and I just wonder if the Church ever read this stuff! The awesome part is that I woke up worrying about money! Am…
Back in v. 5 Paul talks about the “obedience of faith” which hints at obedience not coming from the Law. When Paul quotes Habakkuk, it’s kind of out of context for what Habakkuk is talking about, but it still holds true. Judgment was coming on Israel because of their lack of faith in God. They…
The perspective of Pilate being blackmailed by the Jewish leaders sheds a lot of light on this section for me. It is so crazy that he would have Jesus flogged and pretty much give the Roman soldiers license to do whatever Pilate had Jesus scourged in hopes that a scourging would be enough to make…
Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them; they know what I said.†(John 18:21 ESV) Jesus is saying this at almost the exact same moment that someone is actually asking those who heard Him out in the courtyard. Peter is saying “I don’t know the man. 
John 18:3 So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons. They took lanterns because they walked in darkness and refused to walk by the Light. They took torches because they did not know the fiery Glory of…
So the question yesterday that a guy at Sunday School asked was about Matthew 5.27-30, where Jesus talks about ripping out eyes and chopping off hands if they lead you to sin. He asked if we should take that seriously or not. I love the way he asked that question, because you can only answer…
[I am sick as a dog today. stopped up, cold, runny nose, some stomach pains and nausea earlier. I‚Äôve just been still in the chair surfing the internet for a while. It‚Äôs hard to think.] v.8 Jesus isn‚Äôt talking about the prophets, but about false prophets and false teachers. The wild thing is, the converse…
“In Hebrew, that is kha-ta’ ‚Äì what we call “sin,” our world-wide, pervasive proclivity to mess up. We often hear it defined as “missing the mark” as though our trouble is just a matter of not being perfect enough (nowhere in Scripture does it say that!). An arrow that goes shy of the bull’s eye….
