Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and unable to speak was brought to Him. He healed him, so that the man could both speak and see. And all the crowds were astounded and said, “Perhaps this is the Son of David!” When the Pharisees heard this, they said, “The man drives out demons only by Beelzebul, the ruler of the […]
Voltaire: “It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.” Eros is a word that denotes self-love. It amounts to me liking some things or some people because they make me feel good. It usually doesn’t focus on one desire longer than 2 years or so, unless it is revived by something that freshens the desirable target […]
Your enemies are afraid of you. Who are you afraid of? When the ten spies Moses sent to Canaan gave their evil reports, they lied about the nations’ opinions of them. “We are like grasshoppers in their eyes…” (Numbers 13:33). When Rahab the Jericho dweller told Joshua’s spies what the nations thought of them, she told the truth – “I […]
If you have read what I wrote about the Bible in 2016 (Using the Bible), you know that I am convinced that everything written in the Bible is not a promise to you. If it were true, you would need to be running most of the time to escape all of the promised curses that can be found there. If […]
You enjoy membership in at least one tribe. Some people have several memberships. One of your tribes may sit at your dinner table. Another may sit around your board room table. Soccer moms can get tribal over their sons’ & daughters’ teams. Tribes have something in common that makes working together and identifying with each other increase their safety or […]
Black swans have always been around. Because Europeans (who have always thought they knew everything) had never seen one, they didn’t think they existed. They had a popular proverb that had variations like, “As unlikely as a black swan,” or facetiously, “As rare as a black swan.” In 1697, Dutch explorers to Western Australia became the first Europeans to see […]
I haven’t seen in Scripture that David, at the campfire on the end of the day on which he survived fighting a bear with no weapon in hand, thanked Yahweh for preparing him for a future fight against an asinine giant. I don’t think he recognized the value of the fight beyond that of the lives of the sheep who […]
Computer games are sometimes structured in levels of difficulty and advancement. Your skill then is measured or scored by the number of levels you have accessed. I am anxious to get to the levels of Kingdom action Jesus talked about in Matthew 17. One is having enough faith to be able to do ANYTHING (verse 20). Another is finding access […]
Some of the ideas that get juggled about in thoughts of justice are judgement, punishment, liberty, and mercy. Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness (Romans 4:3 & Genesis 15:6). If righteousness could come through the Law given to Moses and the Jews, Jesus died in vain (Galatians 2:21) Since righteousness is not properly discerned though […]
I believe one of the reasons we don’t see cowardly people inheriting the Kingdom in Scripture is because we have to have courage or we don’t “overcome.” The overcomers inherit. The courageous share the teaching or the prophecy or host the gathering or confront the evil or encourage the broken or empower the learners. The courageous also make mistakes. They […]