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 [...]
Category: Christian Living, John | No Comments »
Tags: spirit, truth, worship
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 [...]
Category: Acts, Christian Living, Isaiah, John, Personalities | No Comments »
Tags: corner stone, oprah winfrey, rock, salvation, truth
Joe | December 2, 2009
Today we conclude the series, Seven Letters to Seven Churches. We have looked at the first six letters to the churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, and Philadelphia. We have looked at each of these letters and churches from a contemporary, composite and chronological application as well as the way each is structured. And [...]
Category: Revelation | 2 Comments »
Tags: apostasy, j vernon mcgee, repentence, truth
Joe | November 23, 2009
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 [...]
Category: John, Luke, Revelation | 3 Comments »
Tags: 95 theses, alexander, antiochus, coesus, holy spirit, j vernon mcgee, joel osteen, john walvoord, lakewood church, martin luther, protestant, reformation, repentance, salvation, sardis, seeker-sensitive, truth
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