Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

Exposure to the Lord is not a pretty thing.  Oh, I know that He is all shiny and bright and perfect and wonderful.  But I am not.  I am a killer, coveter, luster, stealer, irritated and gossip.

When I…

Andrew, who has been a disciple for about 5 minutes, makes another disciple of his brother Peter.  Spiritual reproduction happens immediately in the gospels.  It is a good thing too, because NO ONE i…

Jesus KNOWS US first.  However, this is always a SURPRISE to us.  We think that our first thoughts of Him coincide with His first thoughts of us.  Yes we are that narcissistic.

Nathaniel gets this re…

Jesus "sees Peter for the first time."  That is, at a certain moment in history, Jesus' physical eyes physically laid eyes upon Peter for the first time.  It was a big moment.  Figuaratively, Jesus' …

Andrew gets his first question from Jesus and it is a doozy: "What are you seeking?"
Andrew's answer knocked me today.  He did NOT say, eternal life, or happiness, or a million dollars, or relational …

Like us, John the Baptist had limited knowledge.  He says twice today, "I did not know."  Yet, he was faithful, and brave, and worked with the knowledge he had.  He was expectant, literally waiting f…

John says, "BEHOLD the RHINOCEROS of God."  No, he does not.  It makes no sense.  How then does, "Behold the LAMB of God" make any more sense than Rhino?  Well, absent what the Bible tells us about t…

A great response to exposure to the truth could be and should be, "What then shall I do?"  It indicates eagerness, willingness, humility and intent. It is a marker that the listener has been stirred …

Jesus has GIGANTIC SHOES! At least if you read the Bible's account of them.  Amazingly, all four gospels comment about how fantastic Jesus' shoe wear is.  Think about that.  Of all the things to put …

Do you ever feel that there is a Word from God, from His Scripture, that isn't quite DONE WITH YOU?  That is just what He does sometimes.

Jesus tells Satan, because he obviously forgot, that there is …

Listen 7 minutes today while Satan promises something he doesn't own; he offers something that is not his to give.  He pretends to command the topic of authority, that he has already messed up fatall…

IF God makes this cancer go away, THEN I'll believe.
IF my son survives this war, THEN I'll follow.

These are ways we put God to the test.  Jesus says NO. It is not supposed to be like that.  After all…

Hunger is in God's toolbox.  Jesus has put Himself in the wilderness to show us how it is done.  He is hungry. He is at the limit of human endurance in this particular area, but other areas of tempta…

Jesus goes on vacation to the wilderness.  Just kidding.  It is anything but a vacation.  He goes for a purpose: to be TEMPTED.He puts on His HUMANITY HAT to be tempted.  Why go through all the troub…

Amidst the waters of John's baptism, the Father and the Spirit SHOW UP.  

They are delivered into our world by the renting of the separation between the physical world and the spiritual world.  There …

John the B has a fight with Jesus.  He disagrees with Jesus.  He refuses Jesus with his actions and his words.  

So what exactly were they fighting about? What causes a really holy, spiritually in-tun…

There is some really good news in today's passage about hell.  Yes it says  that it is an unquenchable fire.  That doesn't sound good.  But it is preventable.  God knows His own.  He will gather them…

John would fit in contemporary diet emphasis.  He ate Local.  But, it was LOCUSTS.

We find out some startling details about our friend John.  We find out what he wears.  It is based on where he lives.…

So the gospel starts with a call to repentance via John the Baptist.  It is a message that has been prepared for a long time externally, but we all have some activity to do to prepare ourselves.  The…