Month: June 2014
Click here to read Matthew 10 on BibleGateway.com Today’s lesson, boys and girls, is on reading the whole Bible, rather than just our favorite verses. Case in point: Matthew 10. Jesus has many titles in the Bible: Emmanuel, Son of…
Click here to read Matthew 6 on BibleGateway.com Have you ever watched one of those award ceremonies where actors are given awards for all their hard work of pretending to be someone one else for millions of dollars? Neither have…
Click here to read Isaiah 57 on BibleGateway.com All of us have probably played the trust game at one point or another. This is the sadistic activity that comes around every once in a while at “team-building” retreats. One person…
Click here to read Psalm 119 on BibleGateway.com What is love, what does it have to do with it? Love is a difficult word for us as English speakers. Other languages, Greek for example, have multiple words for love. So,…
Click here to read Matthew 3 on BibleGateway.com John the Baptist is one of the most intriguing characters in the whole Bible. From his conception, he had a special place in God’s plans. One can even argue he was the…
Click here to read Revelation 22 on BibleGateway.com What defines you? Is it what you believe or what you do? If I say “a heatlhy lifestyle is very important to me” yet I have a subscription to Oreo Weekly –…
Click here to read Isaiah 50 on BibleGateway.com For your enjoyment, I give you the best joke of Immanuel Kant: An Englishman at an Indian’s table in Surat saw a bottle of ale being opened, and all the beer, turned…
Click here to read Deuteronomy 22 on BibleGateway.com Back in the 60s and 70s in the US, there was a popular philosophy that said basically “as long as you don’t hurt someone, you can do whatever you want.” If you…
Click here to read Isaiah 48 on BibleGateway.com There’s an old saying (old in that I can’t remember where I first heard it, coupled with being too lazy to look it up) that says “most of us spend the week…
Click here to read Isaiah 43 on BibleGateway.com Why is it we like to add to the Bible? A few years ago, one of the more common phrases you would hear in sermons was the idea that “you will never…
Click here to read Psalm 99 on BibleGateway.com Back in the day, every playground designed for children had the instrument of humiliation known as the See-Saw or TeeterTotter. Nothing says “hey, you’re a big fatty” like requiring four of your…
Click here to read Isaiah 33 on BibleGateway.com One of the big challenges of the post-modern Christian is to separate our understanding of the Bible from our culture. Not that this is a new thing, of course. The ancient Romans…