Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

Today is the 365th episode of Be With Me.  A Year of daily 7 minute segments that seek to find and revel in the Lord Himself.  We call it wonder.

I'm grateful today for faithful listeners.  I'm even m…

Poetically, 30 pieces of Silver was the price paid for the life of a slave.  (Ex 21:32) Jesus was initially priced as a slave.  Likely, it was meant as an adequate amount enough that the thief Judas …

There is a PLOT agains Jesus.  There are secret meetings, secret thoughts, and secret payments.  The disciples are surprised.  The Chief Priests think they are surprising Jesus. 

No, Jesus knew all al…

When you get to "Stand before the Son of Man" in heaven, here's my advice:  Just fall down. Just bow down.  Who can stand before His glory, judgment, wrath, redemptive goodness, sovereignty, etc?  Yo…

The tree I am looking at right now will pass away and everything like it.  Why?  It is tainted by the fall.  Broken.  Impaired.  We are going to get a whole new set of sky and land that isn't contami…

Today's message about the end of the world as we know it just charmed me.  Everything is hitting the fan:  nature is going crazy. Powers of heaven are shaken. Signs in sun moon and stars. earth is in…

Before Jesus leaves the earth, He spends a considerable amount of time clarifying His COMING BACK.  This is in a substantial piece of Scriptural Real Estate called the Olivet Discourse.  It teaches, …

When is "small" MORE THAN "large?"
We have to do the Lord's crazy math to figure this out.  We probably have to see as God sees, and judge as God judges.

We look at "the Widow's Mite" story.  There is …

Jesus loves 'Jerusalem', and all that she represents.  He says He loves her like a CHICKEN.  He is funny like that.  He loves us like we are under His wing.  It is beautiful.  He flutters over us. He…

The entire chapter of Matthew 23 is a rant about what God does NOT LIKE about the Pharisees.  So we get a real treasure.  By contrast, we find out what He DOES LIKE.  The Lord values some things that…

The Gospel writer Matthew has something to say.  He's gonna GO OFF on the Scribes and Pharisees for an entire chapter.  But first...you'll never believe this...he says to OBEY THEM.  Yup, PRACTICE AN…

What are the CREDENTIALS of a Messiah?  How do you answer this?  What AUTHORITY to you use as paramount?

You can see the Pharisees in today's passage all eagerly raising their hands to answer Jesus' q…

You shall LOVE.
Most important command in the OT gives the object:  God Himself.  TaDa!  You get to be in relationship with HIM.  Wowser.
2nd most important command in the OT gives the same command YOU…

The Old Testament is full of treasures.  There are diamonds there.  Some are on the surface. Some you gotta dig a little.  (Salute to David Mathis' Habits Of Grace) There is one commandment that is #…

It is Tuesday of the Great Week and Jesus does not suffer the foolishness of the Sadducees.  They come to Him to trap Him with a trick question about the resurrection. His response?

YOU ARE WRONG(abou…

Do you know exactly what's on a U.S. Quarter?  I tried this exercise this morning and failed miserably.  So, I suggest you reach into your pocket and try the same thing.  You will also fail miserably…

We want a just God.  However, we don't like what justice means.  We don't like that God, because of our rebellion, must sometimes go to DEFCON 4 in just punishment.

Jesus looks 'em in the eye today an…

Welcome to a WAR OF DISRESPECT.  The people in this parable choose to go to war with God.  Then they ratchet it up to DEFCON 1 with more disrespect.  Then they ratchet it up to DEFCON 2 of disrespect…