This series of Bible studies seeks to retell the stories of women who were divinely called and empowered to do great things. Many of them rose to the occasion, and a few very famously did not. Often, the tragedies and triumphs in their lives are missed, and their stories are told from perspectives other than with the honor and dignity they deserve.
New Year: A Community in Mourning
"Happy New Year" symbolizes a fresh start, a chance to start over with the possibility of leaving the past behind. But what happens when the new year brings fresh trouble, fresh pain, or carries with it the things of last year that will not go away?
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Revelation 16: The Sixth Bowl, Har Megiddo or Armageddon
Then the sixth poured out his ceremonial bowl upon the great Euphrates River, and its water was dried up, so that the road could be made ready for the kings from the rising sun. Then, I saw out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of … Continue reading Revelation 16: The Sixth Bowl, Har Megiddo or Armageddon
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Isaiah 22: An Oracle Against Jerusalem
The prophet now circled to the center of Judah’s kingdom, at the very heart of the nation. God’s holy hill, Mount Zion, to God’s holy habitation, the royal capital of Jerusalem.
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Roman Waterworks
A great deal of infrastructure was also necessary—roads, waterworks, food delivery, fortifications—were necessary to support Herod's ambitions building program.
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Revelation 1: The Whole Earth?
In the present tense, it makes John’s statement an ongoing event, one which had been fulfilled at the cross and continued at Pentecost. But was John speaking only of the supernatural work of Christ whenever the gospel was told and of the Holy Spirit’s conviction of those who heard it by God’s divine power? Or was John indicating there would also be a future fulfillment, one more substantial and concrete? A physical return of Christ, coming on the Pillar of Cloud, God’s glorious Shekinah?
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Pause Button!
For a couple of months, I am going to be concentrating almost exclusively on writing my thesis.
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Elijah, Lessons on Loneliness
Originally delivered on a Sunday at New Hope Chapel, Arnold MD, this talk was a team-teaching project with another of the teachers at New Hope Chapel, in a series on loneliness
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Gospel of John: Three Concerns
This is good news for humankind, for we have been trying to appease angry gods for all of our recorded history.
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Woman at the Well
Jesus was thirsty for water, and knew the woman at the well was thirsty for eternal life. But. There is so . . . much . . . more to this story. You may be surprised by what the Greek reveals.
