Summer in the Sayings of Jesus – Week 1
“What do you want?” John 1:38 https://youtu.be/L-XR7E7xjWE
“What do you want?” John 1:38 https://youtu.be/L-XR7E7xjWE
Greetings, readers! Here is a link to my newly published article on being drunk in the Holy Spirit. Abstract There are a number of New Testament passages that associate the concepts …
Included in the story of Jesus’s birth is the detail that after he was born, Mary “wrapped him in cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no …
Since Jesus affirms the inspiration of the Old Testament, how do we reconciled what seems to be a wrathful God in the Old Testament, yet a kind, loving, and gracious …
The Bible is adamant that we not make idols (images or representations of God). The holiness of God is what’s behind the Bible’s strong prohibition against making idols.[1] God is so completely other than (i.e., "holy") …
Jesus’s Baptism Matthew 3:16 says, “And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of …
In John 4:1, John goes out of his way to tell readers that Jesus didn’t baptize anyone. Why is this? First, John the Baptist tells his audience that he baptizes with …
First Samuel 1 tells the story of Hannah, who is ridiculed by her husband's other wife (Peninah) because she can't have children. It's likely that the only reason her husband …
Psalms 74 and 75 speak to one another. In Psalm 74 we hear a desperate cry for help. The unthinkable happened when the Babylonians destroyed the Jerusalem temple. The psalmist in …