Gospel of John: 7 Witnesses, 7 Claims

I picture John by candlelight, yet his papyrus glows with an otherworldly illumination. The ink in its well is like a pool of phosphorescence, and the tip of his quill lambent with supernatural light. “The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world,” he writes

Heavenly Stuff

This talk is about emerging as a transformed people by God's love, so that we will do everything we can to help each other through this next season.

Minor Prophets: Amos Condemns the Nations

The way Amos chose to depict himself was as a simple man minding his own business, tending to his farm and family, when God came barreling in with an urgent message

Gospel of John: Why Study It?

Because what the culture you and I are a part of will, to a very great extent, determine what we beliefs are willing to entertain.

Gospel of John: Who Wrote It?

According to Irenaeus, who lived around 130 to 202 A.D., the apostle John wrote the final form of his gospel in Ephesus, sometime toward the end of the first century.

Gospel of John: What Is It?

The Gospel of John acts as something of a love letter from God to His people, a book that has changed more lives than possibly any other book written. It presents Jesus as a man with personal warmth, intimacy, human emotions and relating to people.

The Gospel of John

The early church didn’t choose the books they wanted to put in the Bible. They eventually recognized the books that God had chosen. Christians had all along been recognizing works that were inspired by the Holy Spirit. These were, as the apostles Paul and Peter had described, “God-breathed” and were treated as scripture as soon as they were read.

Bartimaeus

You have to literally give up seeing some things so you are able to see other things.

Minor Prophets: The Book of Amos

Amos knew what it was to scratch out an existence with the poor. He had courage, endurance, tenacity, and righteous zeal. And like his dressing knife, Amos' tongue was sharp and to the point.

God’s Intriguing Questions

[This is a guest post by author Kathy Collard Miller, a fellow member of the Advanced Writers and SPeakers Association (AWSA)] Why does God ask questions in the Bible? Does He need to ask questions? For whose benefit does He ask questions? In God's Intriguing Questions: 40 Old Testament Devotions, husband and wife team, Larry and Kathy Collard … Continue reading God’s Intriguing Questions