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 [...]
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 | 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 [...]
Category: 2 Peter, Ephesians, Hebrews, John, Jude, Numbers, Revelation, Romans | 2 Comments »
Tags: balaam, balak, covetousness, manna, pagan, pergamum, Satan, sword
Joe | October 21, 2009
The Chasm There is a chasm between every human being and the Creator of the Universe. It’s a chasm that no one can cross over by strictly human means. Why the chasm? What caused it? In a word, sin. The sin of Adam and Eve and all of their children (that’s you and I) caused [...]
Category: Agnosticism, Atheism, Genesis, Hebrews, John, Judgment, Revelation, Romans | No Comments »
Tags: Agnosticism, apostasy, Atheism, choices, condemnation, homosexuality, judgment, salvation, sin, truth
Joe | September 23, 2009
Over these past months, I’ve mentioned “issues” we’ve experienced with our teenager and some of the challenges we have faced with regarded to his education. As I may have mentioned, we decided to home-school him for his last two years of high school. It was a huge decision for us and primarily for my wife. [...]
Category: Deuteronomy, Home-school, Parenting, Romans, Stepfathering | 8 Comments »
Tags: children, choices, education, Home-school, stepson, teenagers
Joe | September 4, 2009
Job’s three friends have finished their first rounds of “speeches” to him. We ended with Zophar’s first speech to Job. Filled with insults and false judgments, Zophar’s speech didn’t help Job anymore than the other two friends of his. It’s now time for Job to once again speak. He is addressing all three of them, [...]
Category: 1 Samuel, Christian Living, Daniel, Deuteronomy, Encouragement, Job, John, Proverbs, Romans | 6 Comments »
Tags: c.s. lewis, death, forgiveness, hope, Job, justice, sin, suffering, trials