Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

You may have heard the phrase, "The truth shall set you free." But what does the truth of Christ practically set us free from? What exactly are my end-user benefits? You are going to love, love, love…

Jesus is lifted up on the Cross.
We lift our eyes of faith and hope towards that definitive central act of sacrifice
Jesus is glorified, lifted up, as we think and appreciate what He has done.

Spend 7 m…

"Dying in your sins" is not recommended. Fortunately, there is a remedy. Our sin is generally glued to us penalty-wise. There is one way out. 

Join mr. Lion and mr. Tiger as they illustrate the whole …

When tasked with stoning someone else caught in adultery, all walk away under personal conviction before throwing a rock.  They themselves get "Struck by the stone of Adultery". But, then what happen…

Rather than "throw stones" at Adultery, it might be better to be STRUCK by the stone of adultery.  That is,  let's think about it, and let the thinking affect us. the Bible has quite a bit to say abo…

How long does faith take?  Sometimes it takes a very long time to blossom.  We've got about a three year window on an important guy named Nicodemus.  If you have taken a while to bravely grab onto yo…

Jesus eventually leaves His believers alone on the planet, but not for long. He makes an ultimate provision for them by giving His Holy Spirit.  Today is the first major introduction to that Spirit. …

The 3 most important things in real estate are location, location, location.

If we know the location of something, it helps us to know its VALUE. People want to know where Jesus is FROM, as this help…

It is fun to judge. It is fun to judge anybody but myself. It is fun to judge anything but the claims of Jesus which all happen to be TRUE. In their exposure to Jesus, He asks for a TRUE judgment; an…

What starts out as a family squabble about who is going to thanksgiving dinner turns into an observation about EVIL.  Specifically, the reason the world doesn't  hate Jesus' brothers, is because they…

How exactly does one have a "happy new year?" Many of the circumstances of the year will be thrust upon us. However, how we respond to the circumstances is vastly in our control.  We are to build spi…

Authentic believers enjoy the reality of UNSNATCHABILITY with the hand of God. Authentic believers also practice unsnatchability.

They hang in there spiritually.  They don't turn their back on the Lor…

I didn't know that it was possible to make crucifixion more unpalatable than it already was, but somehow, Jesus pulls it off today. He pushes the metaphor to call us to associatively participate in t…

What if there was a new restaurant that served up the Bread from heaven on its menu? What if you could order up living forever for yourself just by requesting it?

Here's the crazy thing: Some who were…

We are so hungry spiritually, we are desperate. And then, a perfectly satisfying, specific, need-answering BREAD plops down from heaven. It is a life or death situation. Take and taste the bread, or …

Bread has been sent for you.  It meets a specific, desperate, current need you have.  It has been divinely sent. It is life-saving, and more: life-giving. It was pictured long long ago in the MANNA o…

God expects us to work. But at WHAT? What is the work that God requires?

People legitimately want to know and today they ask Jesus straight up, , “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?”

He ans…

What is the VALUE, the WORTH of the Christmas Story? It might be worth holding it for a minute and turning it around a bit. 

You'll find that it is a love story and you are smack dab in the center of …

What will you do when you are on "the dark and stormy" sea of a spiritual situation? Well, it won't be your first spiritual day. It won't be your 'Groundhog Day.'

Of particular note in the story of th…