When is Jesus Coming Back?

Joe | February 12, 2010

The Bible is a prophetic book. Seems like an obvious statement to most people, doesn’t it?
There are some wonderful gems that I think we all over look in our Bible reading. One that I recently became aware of is found in Hosea. It concerns one of the triggering events of Jesus’ Second Coming.
I will go away [...]

True Worshipers

Joe | February 3, 2010

What is true worship?
Ever ask yourself that? Have you ever wondered what it means to worship God?
Luckily for us, Jesus Himself tells us in the book of John. He is having a conversation with a woman at a well. Jesus and this woman have an interesting dialog that initially finds the woman being quite terse [...]

The Stone of Salvation

Joe | January 20, 2010

 
 
 
The Bible makes many points crystal-clear. Two of them I’d like to address are in Acts 4.
Who is the Chief Corner Stone?
Peter was on trial after having been arrested for “teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead” (Acts 4:2). The chief priests asked him: “By what power, or in what [...]

Holy and Honored?

Joe | January 18, 2010

A couple of weeks back, a brother-in-Christ, Darren Ethier, wrote a great little post called “Strange Fire.”
(By the way, as a brief interruption to our program, he wrote a great WordPress plugin for Series posts that I use here at May He Increase. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.)
Darren had given a sermon on [...]

Seven Letters to Seven Churches: Sardis

Joe | November 23, 2009

This entry is part 6 of 8 in the series Seven Letters to Seven Churches

Last time, we closed out chapter 2 of Revelation looking at the Roman Church of Thyatira.
As we move into the third chapter of Revelation, we will look at the Protestant Church in Jesus’ letter to the church of Sardis. This is the fifth of the seven letters.
Sardis: The Protestant Church
Sardis was the capital of the [...]

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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.