“If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying ‘I repent,’ you must forgive them.”Luke 17:3b-4 Bring back, ‘I Repent’.‘I’m sorry’ is played out.‘I repent’ is much more onContinue reading “Bring Back ‘I Repent’”
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Alone Yet Never Forsaken
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. Matthew 19:29 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. WeContinue reading “Alone Yet Never Forsaken”
PARADOX
Hidden in plain sight The Truth is actually extremely plain and clear Yet most do not see or understand This was prophesied; Jesus emphasized it; the apostles themselves experienced it; the crowds demonstrated it, we still experience that in our natural thinking, our natural or so called “logical” rational minds or selves, our “nous” WeContinue reading “PARADOX”
Luke The Physician
This man prepared his writing materials and sat down around the year AD 60 to record the life of Jesus. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_the_Evangelist Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses andContinue reading “Luke The Physician”
Motivational Speaking
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:26-27 No motivational speaker has ever uttered such words. None. JESUS isContinue reading “Motivational Speaking”
Repent or Perish
What about pygmies in Africa? What about people who never hear about JESUS? What about this, what about that? These are the quintessential hypothetical diversions we have heard which were exposed years ago as thinly veiled evasion attempts. And these have been around with the same intent for thousands of years. What about the innocentContinue reading “Repent or Perish”
Arid Places
Reflecting on the December 11 discussions spanning Luke 8-11… Usually, we think of Mark’s earliest account as being most raw, dramatic and revealing the most focus on the miracles and power among the first hand accounts and primary witness documents. However, Luke does not disappoint. Focus for a few minutes on the realities in theseContinue reading “Arid Places”
So You Think You Know JESUS?
Luke 13 Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too willContinue reading “So You Think You Know JESUS?”
Light
“No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.” Luke 8:16 “No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or underContinue reading “Light”
Valiant
Nothing new under the sunbut amazing things that have gone on under this skyand what a spectacular frigid March skymemories of Jutes, Angles and SaxonsVikings and mysterious peoplesshrouded in darkness of pages long forgottenlives spent in the gray, frozen water-world of the North European Atlantic Mind full of reflectionson the exploits of my God andContinue reading “Valiant”