Once upon a time a dude came to Jesus to have Him settle an inheritance dispute with his brother. Of course we’re all assuming that Jesus will weigh-in on this matter! Of course Jesus will stop whatever else He is doing, and make this His top priority! Because this is a very big deal! A […]
Once upon a time the LORD stirred up the spirit of the Persian potentate. The President of Persia (a distant predecessor of Sayyid Ebrahim Raisolsadati) zealously decided to wholistically finance and endorse the agenda of the Maker whose ways are radically different than our ways. The Persian President delightedly deferred to the only true & […]
Amaziah was the king. He assumed the throne at the age of 25, and he was in power for 29 years. He wasn’t wholehearted, but he wasn’t horrible. His dad had been assassinated by a couple of dudes named Zabad and Jehozabad (let the reader observe …both names end in “bad”). When Amaziah became king, […]
I’m reading through 1 & 2 Chronicles these days, and concomitantly I found myself listening to an audiobook entitled “The Last Godfather: The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino” by Simon Crittle. And I realized something… This macabre book about the mafia is thoroughly helping me understand the dynamics, and emphatic ghastliness, displayed by God […]
The Holy Spirit told me, “So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.” And then the Holy Spirit said, ““Behold, I […]
The church is a dysfunctional family. There is no escaping some degree of drama. Drama and dysfunction are like bad weather. You can build houses and structures that keep the elements out, but the weather is still battering the house, and you yourself cannot always avoid it (e.g. like when you are coming home from […]
Who is on your TOP 5 list of people you’d like to grab a beer with and chat? Rahab the prostitute is on my TOP 5 list! And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the […]
I was imaginatively inhabiting Paul’s letters to the people in Colossae this morning. Philemon lived in Colossae! So when you imaginatively immerse yourself in Paul’s letter to Colossae you must also diligently envisage the rigors and jubilation of Philemon’s relationship with Paul and Onesimus! Moreover, the Laodicea community was 20km down the road from Colossae, […]
Here’s the deal. God made the world, and then we said, “We’ll take it from here!” Things got bad. Shockingly, God didn’t give us the silent treatment. He mercifully gave us His Word! So we decided to become scholars of God’s Word. Not so much practitioners, but definitely scholars. We accumulated religious information, and we […]
I ran across this small batch of quotations from our good buddy Eugene this morning. I now share them with you bloggy-blog readers, and I exhort and encourage you to mull them over for a minimum of 7 seconds 7 reps. “The assumption of spirituality is that always God is doing something before I know […]