“Can I get a witness?” In Acts 23, Paul would have to be his own witness. The high priest and the Sanhedrin would get more than they’d bargained for. Some commentators, in fact quite a consensus, think we’re seeing a rare glimpse of Paul’s sinful humanity and an apology to the high priest. I think not. Paul […]
Dear friends and subscribers, I wanted to let you know that I will resume normal posting beginning tomorrow. Over the past 10 days, my web site experienced a security issue which resulted in my web site being blacklisted by Google. Ours is unfortunately a day and age of malicious hacking. I want to apologize if […]
The entire series is available in the archives (right) beginning November 29, 2015. Announcing this year’s Seminary Gal Advent devotional series: Incarnation. Have you ever wondered exactly what the Incarnation is and why God did it? In a series of 26 lessons, we will explore this most important event in Christian theology. If there are […]
Sorry for the repost on this. My web site has been experiencing technical difficulties and I needed to restore to an earlier version that was missing this post. I’m away from the pulpit again this week as I continue to prepare the good folks in the congregation at Plymouth Church for my departure at the […]
Has America been doing through complacency & legislation, what ISIS has been doing with bombs & beheadings? Paul shows how to be a citizen of both earth & heaven. It’s a tough one, but using the THINK before ACTING strategy described here and asking what history will look like if we fail to act properly, each […]
History is in the process of being rewritten all over our planet. Artifacts destroyed. Landmarks bombed. Books burned. Events are being rewritten whether Columbus or Creation. Whether the Jewish Holocaust or Soviet expansion. History—without landmarks and without accurate retelling—risks becoming a thing like mythology for people to pass off as nothing. Truth–and the freedom it […]
Today’s passage is Acts 21:27-36 and it’ll help us to see the bigger picture by reading it and then going back to talk about this Arrested Development. Acts 21:27 When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and […]
In Acts 21:27-36, there is a development. Paul is arrested on the same charges he’d made against Stephen before Paul saw the Light. Far from arrested development, the message would go on through the Apostle Paul’s prison letters.
What’s the difference between fatalism and an honest expression of “The Lord’s will be done”? What is the difference between a sad state of resignation and a confident trust in Christ? Where does one gain wisdom and discernment to sort through the mixed ideas of well-meaning Christians and develop the obedience for one’s walk with […]
There are a few things in life guaranteed to make me cry. One of them is a good good-bye. In the movie, The Wizard of Oz, the wizard is in a hot-air balloon floating off to Kansas without Dorothy and Toto. He cries out that he can’t come back because he doesn’t know how it […]
