Friday Friends Open Thread

Joe | February 26, 2010

Welcome to Friday everyone!
Here’s another open thread where you are welcome to share interesting finds on the Internet, share what God is doing in your life, share recent posts you have written, or prayer requests.
This weekend I’m participating in “The Game Plan: Men’s Purity Seminar” at Knott Avenue Christian Church. It’s being given by Joe [...]

Of Cords and Ropes

Joe | February 24, 2010

UPDATE 02/28/2010: Welcome from Caffeinated Thoughts!
It amazes me how often “experts” and the average person will casually dismiss the Bible for what it really is. Have they actually read the Bible?
Then again, the natural man won’t be able to comprehend what he is reading. Certainly when I first became a Christian I had no idea [...]

Seven Parables for Seven Churches: The Sower

Joe | February 22, 2010

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Seven Parables for Seven Churches

In the introductory post, we talked about how Jesus teaching in parables was a fulfillment of prophecy in Isaiah. We also talked about how the seven parables found in Matthew 13 are directly related to the seven letters found in the book of Revelation.
Today we want to look at the parable of The Sower and [...]

Seven Parables for Seven Churches: Introduction

Joe | February 19, 2010

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Seven Parables for Seven Churches

Last November, we studied the seven letters of Jesus in the book Revelation. We looked at the letters from three aspects:

Contemporary
Composite
Chronological

As a recap, the churches Jesus wrote to were:

Ephesus
Smyrna
Pergamum
Thyatira
Sardis
Philadelphia
Laodicea

These churches represented the following periods in church history:

“The Light of Asia,” the period just after Pentecost.
The Persecuted Church
The Pagan Church
The Church of Romanism
The Protestant Church
The Revived [...]

The Battle You Cannot See

Joe | February 16, 2010

There is a battle that has raged since the days of creation. It’s battle of good versus evil, light versus darkness more epic than any battle ever conceived in the mind of man. But it is a battle that we humans, generally, are rarely even aware of.
Paul accurately describes it this way:
For our struggle is not [...]

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Joe

I am a born-again Christian who believes the Bible to be the inspired Word of God, the final authority for faith and life, inerrant in the original writings, infallible and God-breathed. I am a husband, father and stepfather who eagerly waits for the return of Jesus, the Meshiach Nagid.