First Corinthians carefully chronicles the confounding complex conformity to CHRIST CRUCIFIED communicated in the complicated cultural context of continuous critical conflicts within the confused Corinthian church community necessitating confrontation, condemnation, castigation, chastisement and correction by Paul. [This might be my proudest alliteration with 24 C‘s!] Always thank God for others (1 Cor 1:4a) in […]
The devil divides but God unites. A friend wrote,𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒐𝒘𝒆 𝒎𝒆 are 3 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍. 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 are 3 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒆 […]
What does your suffering produce in you? Glory? Or bitterness, hatred, retaliation and anger? 1 Pet 5:1 connects suffering and glory. “Persons who have really suffered at the hands of others do not […]
Theme: “Who’s following you?” With a good shepherd, there’s nothing I lack (Ps 23:1). He brings me back to himself (Ps 23:3) when I’m lost and when I’m in the valley of deepest darkness (Ps 23:4). He […]
There’s nothing I lack when “the Lord is my shepherd” (Ps 23:1). Unless my shepherd brings me back to him (Ps 23:3), I’m lost. He’s with me when I’m in the valley of deepest darkness (Ps 23:4). […]
Sermons on Psalm 23: Nothing I Lack (Ps 23:1-2) and Only God Can Bring Me Back to Himself (Ps 23:3). Next, is the valley of darkness and death that everyone has to pass through […]
Theme:Only God can Bring Me Back from Being Lost(Ps 23:3).The Need to be Brought Back. [Isaiah,Peter,Augustine, Wesley, John Newton,Ben Tohneeded God to bring them back to God Himself.] Davids classic […]
In 2019 we prayed to see Jesus more clearly (Mk 8:25); in 2020 we pray to hear the voice of our good shepherd (Jn 10:3). The shepherd imagery is found throughout the Bible. Jacob before […]
Why are beauty products a multi-billion $ industry? Who doesn’t appreciate the beauty and majesty of nature? Who doesn’t like to look at an attractive person, or just imagine the image of that person’s beauty in one’s mind’s […]
Matthew 14 suggests that we Christians should Walk on Water. In Matthew 15 we consider what constitutes (great) faith from a Canaanite woman. She was aggressively persistently humble, humorous and unrelentingly undeterred while [seemingly] humiliated (Mt 15:25-27). One who is humiliated […]
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