Wait Expectantly

   One of my 2021 goals is to read the entire Bible.   I’ve done the chronological one year Bible for several years now,  in a couple of different translations.  The Genesis to Revelation plan bogs me down in Chronicles.  In an effort to find a new way,  of course,  I went to google.  I was…

      Jeremiah,  the “weeping prophet”  the one who never had a good thing to say.  Jeremiah’s most famous words are  on pictures, plaques, journals, note cards,  even tattooed on our bodies but these words in chapter 17: 7,8   . . .                 There was a popular hymn in the 50’s based on this…

   Thinkin’ about grace today.  The unmerited favor of God coupled with forgiveness.  Considering the price Christ paid,  we need to be sure he’s getting his monies worth.  We must be worthy of the call.  Paul said this in Ephesians 4:1.   In Philemon we see an escaped servant who had stolen from his master,…

        So, I’m thinkin’ today about John, the beloved disciple.  The one to whom Jesus entrusted His own mother’s life. John wrote his gospel between 80-95 AD, well after the ascension of Jesus.  He’s very clear that his purpose in this book is that others believe that Jesus is the Christ.  (Bonus Tip: …

Micah came back around after about a year of absence.  Micah.   The “minor prophet”  Micah.  The guy who is so “minor”  no one ever preaches from his writings,  never been a Bible Study about Micah and few sermons feature him as the main character.    In college,  I took a class called “The Minor Prophets” …

   Remember Tom Hank’s famous phrase in Apollo 13 (one of my favorite movies BTW)?  Tom and his fellow astronauts had lost control of their spaceship. They tried multiple fixes but eventually had to surrender to mission control.     Well, my friends,  we have  a problem.  Government leaders have tried to control the spread of…