Joe | December 7, 2009
Things have settled down a little around here since Thanksgiving.
The day before Thanksgiving, I received a phone call from the hiring manager I interviewed with a couple weeks previously. He made me a formal job offer. After a little over four months of being out of work, I had gotten the phone call I had [...]
Category: 1 Thessalonians, Encouragement, Jeremiah, Prayer, Romans | 2 Comments »
Tags: faith, hope, jobs, trials, trust, work
Joe | November 30, 2009
So far, we’ve looked at the first five of seven letters Jesus writes to the churches of Asia Minor.
The letters we have looked at so far are:
Ephesus: “The Light of Asia”
Smyrna: “The Church of Suffering”
Pergamum: “The Pagan Church”
Thyatira: “The Church of Romanism”
Sardis: “The Protestant Church”
We now come to Philadelphia. It’s one of my favorite letters. [...]
Category: 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 2 Timothy, Ephesians, Isaiah, Luke, Matthew, Revelation, Romans, Titus | 3 Comments »
Tags: crown, david, faith, grace, great tribulation, j vernon mcgee, john walvoord, key, love, rapture, salvation, throne, works
Joe | May 11, 2009
I was reading Luke last night and saw two passages in a new light. Or, at least, they hit me differently than they had before.
In Luke 18, Jesus was giving a parable concerning prayer. The introductory verses are critical to understanding the rest of the parable and, indeed, to understand how prayer works: it’s on [...]
Category: 1 Thessalonians, Luke, Prayer | 2 Comments »
Tags: faith, Prayer