Joe | November 18, 2009
The martyred church of Smyrna was the last letter we studied.
Like Ephesus, Smyrna was one of the better churches. Smyrna, however, did not receive any word of condemnation. Jesus only had positive words to speak to Smyrna.
We will now study the third letter, the letter to the church of Pergamum.
Pergamum: The Pagan Church
Pergamum was located [...]
Joe | September 9, 2009
It was God’s turn to speak to Job last time. We studied God’s first response to Job by studying His knowledge. We looked at God in His role as Lord over all nature.
We ended the last study by asking the question: do you see your sins as scarlet?
But God isn’t finished speaking to Job. We [...]
Joe | August 7, 2009
Sometimes I think or look back on decisions I’ve made and can see that sometimes God was not with me. What I mean is, I made the decision without the counsel of God or, at the very least, not taking the decision to Him in prayer.
In these past weeks of being unemployed, I’ve gone through [...]
Joe | January 30, 2009
We’ve talked previously about seemingly strange passages in the Old Testament and wonder why that story, etc., was in there. The Cities of Refuge was one of those.
Another strange passage is in Numbers 21. It starts off by describing how the people of Israel were complaining about the journey out of Egypt to the Promised [...]
Joe | January 22, 2009
As I mentioned in a prior post, there are times when reading the Bible you’ll come across something and ask yourself “what is that about?” Everything in the Bible is there for a reason. That means every name, every place, and every law has it’s place in the Bible for a reason.
In Numbers 35, there [...]
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