How I answered a call to preach in college, and abandoned it
The pastor was anointing people one Sunday when I was eight years old. Amongst the other…
I wrote this piece last October 2018 as requested by my professor in…
Our journey back 1500 years into antiquity began on the early train from Varenna, Italy. We left Lake Como behind on a crowded…
Humanity can be classified into three. Atheists, believers and sceptics. Atheists firmly denounce the existence of…
My entire life I thought I was going to be a minister. In fact, some people who know me…
I, too, robbed my children and myself…..all in the name of ‘religion’ and doing what I thought was right. I was lied to; church after church after church…I believed what ‘men’ told me. I drank the kool-aid. My marriage ended and it had too. He was emotional…
“As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;” Psalm 103:13 NIV…
I have a confession to make. The clutter on my nightstand is taking over my life.
Something extremely interesting to think about is that at the time of Jesus, belief in any kind of afterlife was a novelty in Judaism and in most of the Mediterranean world. We take the idea for granted, but the ancients didn’t.
So the idea of a literal hell in which people suffered physically would have been stunning to…
Exodus 9: 10–12
By Debie Thomas
He haunts the places of the dead. Every night, the townspeople hear him, shrieking among the tombs. When…
What the Gospel Is
Basically, it means “the good news of God.”
Nightly, there is a barrage of “the bad news of Man.”
Studying the Bible as a lay person, sometimes with an array of New And Old Testament dictionaries, concordances, and Greek Interlinear and Amplified Bibles…
No, that’s a good observation. I can totally see that. The Jewish leaders thought they had what they needed to make themselves right with God. Jesus came and turned everything upside down, and that really did make them angry. The Samaritans probably did have an easier time accepting the truth about who Jesus was because they weren’t so bound by…
I never thought about it quite in this way. I hate washing dishes, but I do tend to think a lot while I’m doing it. I might just have to rethink that hatred!