Just asking the right questions is not always enough. Sometimes, they need to be asked the right way. “How can this be?” Zechariah asked that question when a messenger from Yahweh informed him that he would have a son supernaturally after a very long time of marriage. His wife Elizabeth had never been able to become pregnant, and they were […]
Friday is dark enough just having been named after a demon. English pagan goddess “Frige” is the source of “Fri-day” and the matching Roman demon is Venus, hence “viernes” is the Spanish name for the same day. Having all the fake deals hype on black friday to launch the sales frenzy as people started to check names off their gift […]
Rational thinking is what we are told we should base all of our decisions on. Everything should line up with evidence and rational predictability. An example could be that the sun is likely to shine tomorrow, but only until evening, then it will get dark. If you see something that fits into miraculous better than it fits rational, I suggest […]
If I put $50k in a checking account in your name and gave you the checkbook, you could give anyone money until it ran out. It would not be hard to do – just decide to give someone some money, write the check, and hand it to them. Or mail it. It is just as easy to forgive someone. No […]
People argue about how many adults were in the crowd Moses led out of Egypt. I hear ranges from 1 to 6 million. Trim all the fat out of the picture you like, and pretend we know there were 1,102,303. Based on that pretense, let’s create some minimal odds. Joshua and Caleb we don’t have to guess at. 2 people […]
Heat is measurable. There are even multiple gauges to measure it with. It is energy. Cold is only measurable in terms of the absence of heat. Light is measurable. Darkness isn’t, really. Once you get down to the point of NO light, darkness doesn’t get darker. Light is measurable above and below the ranges at which our eyes can’t perceive […]
Paul wrote to the believers in Rome (12:1,2) that their transformation should come through having their minds changed. That is a picture of repentance – “metanoeo” – changed knowledge. Every time you respond to opportunities to do things an old, unconverted-to-Jesus way, if you do it the new, “like Jesus” way, you have proven you have repented. We change our […]
Some words in the Bible speak of 3-part ideas. Baptize means to use a medium (fire, water, the Holy Spirit) as a means through which to take someone or something out of something into something else. Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 10 that Israel was baptized into Moses, for example. From here to there, through that. Sanctify means “set apart.” […]
Song of Solomon 5:2-8 Sometimes Jesus visits us when it is inconvenient. Focusing on ourselves instead of our Lord will cause us to miss the day of His visitation. Revelation 3:20 Jesus was speaking to the Church (3:14,22) not unbelievers. John saw a door opened in Heaven; the closed door is on our end of the ladder. Matthew 25:31-46 Jesus […]
Most of your body is water. If you get dehydrated, your brain doesn’t work at full force. Each cell struggles to draw nutrition in and wash spent nutrients out. Your eyes get dry. Your throat gets dry. Your head hurts. If you are working or playing hard, and don’t have enough water in your blood to turn into sweat, you […]