Isaiah and the Great Commission

by | May 22, 2016 | Uncategorized

I just completed participating in an extended group study of the book of Isaiah. As a wrap up to that profoundly impactful time, I had the opportunity to facilitate a session on Isaiah and the Great Commission. Here is an adaptation of that session. The Great...

Slavery

by | Feb 19, 2016 | Uncategorized

  Any time critics of the bible come up with slavery as an example of how awful God is, they completely miss the point.   Every single soul is a slave. The point really is what kind of a master do we want: a cruel, deceptive one, or a loving truthful one?   And what...

Unwilling to change?

by | Feb 15, 2016 | Uncategorized

In response to someone’s suggestion that I was unwilling to change my mind…   I really started my journey when I was 17, when I met someone who told me of a God who had predicted the future, was bringing those predictions to fulfillment, was in control of...

Celebrating ‘Begotten’

by | Jan 11, 2016 | Uncategorized

I’ve just reviewed a document which criticizes in some detail The Message, of which I have recently posted two parts of the Introduction to. The link to the document was posted as part of a Facebook conversation regarding Part 1, if anyone would like to go...

Introduction to THE MESSAGE: Part 3

by | Jan 10, 2016 | Uncategorized

This is the final part in the little mini-series on what I feel is an excellent brief overview of what God’s Word is really meant to be to us, and what impact it can have if we actually read it. Several interesting and challenging conversations have arisen out...

Introduction to THE MESSAGE: Part 2

by | Jan 7, 2016 | Uncategorized

The other day I posted part 1 of Introduction to THE MESSAGE. Here’s the next portion of what Eugene Peterson, the translator of The Message says about reading it. *** Part 2: Introduction to THE MESSAGE Through reading the Bible, we see that there is far more...

Introduction to THE MESSAGE: Part 1

by | Jan 3, 2016 | Uncategorized

I have immense respect for Eugene H. Peterson, the man who spent ten years of his life translating the original Hebrew and Greek languages of the Old and New Testament into the language and vernacular of today. The Message is the result. For several years I have made...