Joe | February 8, 2010
If my boys came to me and asked me for help, would I help them? Yes, to the best of my ability but also I would do my best to guide them into figuring something out on their own. Be a coach, of sorts. It really does them no good to do for them what [...]
Joe | January 27, 2010
The topic of why God brings about suffering has risen to the surface again with the tragedy of Haitian earthquake. While I, in no way, wish to casually dismiss or try to briefly explain it all away, I do wish to present a small, Biblical snapshot of suffering.
In Paul’s letter to the Romans, he gives [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Joe | November 20, 2009
We previously looked at Jesus’ third letter he wrote to the church at Pergamum, “the pagan church.” Pergamum resumed the theme of the first letter to Ephesus, with both words of commendation and condemnation.
The fourth letter to the church of Thyatira has both words, with some additional stipulations. We look at this letter today.
Thyatira: The [...]
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