It’s a nice cool evening here in New England, a good coffee drinking-thinking sort of night. Yes I’m drinking coffee and trying my best to think while I’m sipping. I’ve been working my way through the gospel of John lately. John is a great book, if like me, you find yourself feeling a bit distant [...]

Biblegems #44 Does the Bible say what year Jesus was born? Also, who decided that we were going to recognize Jesus’ Birthday on the 25th of December, and in what year did they decide this was going to take place? Just wondering. Merianne. Jesus was likely born somewhere between 4 B.C and 6 B.C. The [...]

Re 1:8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” Re 4:8 The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, [...]

NEW LIFE LESSONS BSFBP: James 3:1-12 OBSERVATION QUESTIONS: 1) Who receives stricter judgment in the body of Christ (v.1)? 2) How might one stumble as a member of Christ’s body (v.2)? 3) What illustrations are used to show the necessity of bridling one’s tongue (v.3-4)? 4) Though it is little, what can the tongue do [...]

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. – 1 John 1:4 John isn’t talking about Ghostbusters here; to test the spirits means to put your spiritual teachers to the proof of Scripture. “Test” (??????????) means [...]

In 1 John 3:22 teaches that “Whatever we ask we receive of Him.” So why do bad things happen to good people? When true Christians pray for other true Christians, why is there not always healing? Why do bad things happen to good people? My own father who has faithfully served God as a Music [...]

Read Genesis 37:1-4 We are all familiar with the story of Joseph: the coat of many colors, the doting father, the jealous brothers. He was left for dead in a pit, sold into Egyptian slavery and went on to save the very brothers who discarded him. That\’s it in a nutshell, or is it? In [...]

This is an edited verision of a post that was originally published on August 31, 2011 at http://ephesians516.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/handling-grief-our-perspective/. When I introduced the topic of handling grief, I had this idea of writing a scheduled, organized and logical series based on my ideas and experience. As I sat down to write the next post after the [...]

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. – John 10:27 Two Sheppard’s lead their flock to graze; one heading north the other south. As the men great each other so do their sheep, hundreds comingling into a sea of unrecognizable wool. There are no brands, or unique markings just [...]

Upon waking in the morning, what is the first thing we do? Do we grab our iphones, or Blackberries to login to our email, Facebook, or Twitter accounts? Do we run to the computer to do the same? How often do we login to these accounts during the course of our day to see what [...]