Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

Bad brother Cain, just after he kills his brother Able, asks the Lord, "Am I my brother's keeper?"  1000 pages later in the book of Romans, we find the answer is YES. 

Like our bad example of Cain, we…

What if God welcomes sinners and gives them the ability to stand effectively before His judgement seat? What if He is Lord over days and eating and even life? How then shall we live?

The short answer …

We all celebrate our birthdays which are the number of days we HAVE HAD.  Imagine if we also knew and celebrated how many days we LEFT.  The former number keeps getting BIGGER.  The latter number kee…

Being a transformed, renewed-mind Christian has consequences. It matters to the individual and to the republic.

God invented authority.  Fortunately, the His fingerprints of this order flow down to t…

In playing music there are a group of notes, & combination of notes that are harmonious with each other.  The goal is to be playing those good notes and to avoid the bad notes, the BROWN NOTES. 

Paul …

The SURVIVOR TV show has been surviving the 43 seasons since 2000.  Its' motto is OUTWIT, OUTPLAY and OUTLAST. It highlights the particular characteristics that contestants need to thrive on the isla…

Today we focus on the greatest organization in the world, the greatest organization in the history of the world, and the greatest organization in the world to come.  It is the body of Christ.  The am…

Scripture asks that we build beauty internally.  That is a non-conformed, fighting, tested, transformed mind. Scripture also asks that we build beauty externally. That is behavior, actions, tongues, …

Our spiritual walks have a transforming of our mind that is described as a testing.  Lots of Christianity is battled between our ears.  Then, the renewal mentally is to be enacted in our behaviors an…

There are passages that cost God more, but this is the passage that costs US the most: Romans 12:1.  It is the most expensive passage in the Bible. It talks of being shaped differently; of behavior t…

Ethnic Israel, the Jewish people, are valued, called, gifted, honored, elect, beloved and not forgotten by God. Regarding Jesus, they don't quite get it just yet. But God is not finished with ethnic …

Our attention is directed towards the KINDNESS OF GOD today.  We are to note it; give our attention; and think about out it.

Let's first note it, but then let's not stop there.  Let's appreciate and g…

When a Cacao farmer grafts in fruit bearing branches onto good rootstock, what exactly is he after? The glorious answer is CHOCOLATE.

The picture in Romans 11 is "faith-Israel" being grafted onto the …

When people on the outside see the kindness of God displayed upon another people group, it gets their attention.  They notice the activity, the favor, the discipline and the presence of God on the ot…

It is not something you say everyday. "You have beautiful feet."  It is someone who is out there; someone who is active; someone who is at the pointy-end of spiritual activity.

Christianity is easy. …

Is a friendship with God even possible? Is it too far away; too not-understandable; too lofty or too out of reach? Today, He'll answer, " I am a God who is NEAR and who WANTS to be friends with you."…

Jesus offends me.  He's like a big rock in the road. He's a big stone to stumble over. That is exactly the point. The big question is what will you do with your offense? 

Listen just 7 minutes to lear…

A friend of mine enthusiastically came to Bible study early one morning while he was having a stroke. That's right, he wasn't moving his left arm.  The rest of us freaked out, and he was on the way t…

This is the most anticipated podcast in the book of Romans, at least by me.  Listen 7 minutes to find out what God is doing NOW with people who are READY and WAITING for His just wrath. The answer ma…

What is the "posture of election?" That is, what is the posture of a man as he encounters the sovereignty of God?

We can shake our fist at God and complain: "Why have you made me like this!#@%&"
Or, we…