2024-01-23 15:36
How much should I be expected to know? Not much. The following Bible passage discourages me from getting all bent out of shape because my knowledge of heaven is …well…limited… Read More
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2023-10-12 18:19
I can’t pin point the time when I began to be aware that Bible truth must be understood in context, but not the context most people think of. “Context” is a broad subject… Read More
2023-10-05 00:29
On a day when the most religious of the Jews were asking Jesus questions and trying to trick him into saying something they could refute, and after stumping the Sadducees concerning the resu… Read More
2023-09-18 15:26
Yesterday I said “see you later” to my best friend. He lost his battle with cancer but won in the end. I am confident he is with Jesus in heaven, and that gives me peace. So, thi… Read More
2023-05-19 20:25
I am eons short of being a theologian. I am not a professional anything. I teach a class sometimes, I’ve preached here and there, but never as a regular paid preacher, so I have a righ… Read More
2023-05-08 20:57
Could it be that well meaning people, like theologians, pastors, elders, preachers and teachers and others, have unintentionally made becoming a Christian much more difficult than it is? I t… Read More
2020-12-29 18:30
Click the link above and read the article…. In my view this church’s leaders have gone too far. I consider myself to be “progressive” (whatever that means) when it c… Read More
2020-03-29 14:07
In the midst of this global pandemic not many people are happy, and for good reason. Almost nobody wants to stay at home day after day, no working, no eating at your favorite place, no trips… Read More
2019-12-24 16:08
From my comfy chair here in sunny Texas I remember those snowy Christmas days in the mountains of North Carolina when I was a young boy. We didn’t have much in the way of gifts and bea… Read More
2019-12-19 21:51
Most of the sermons and Bible lessons you have heard about the birth of Jesus have been from the gospels of Luke and Matthew. We love the telling of the virgin being with child, his humble b… Read More
2019-10-11 19:23
This familiar statement became very absolute and painful on December 10th, 1997. Over 17 years earlier I had looked Jeanine Kay Hutchings in the eyes and promised those words, “Until d… Read More
2018-11-22 15:34
Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. This directive from the Apostle Paul to the churches in 1 Thessalonians 5:18 could not be more cl… Read More
2018-11-03 15:09
Many people who claim to love God and follow Him soon get misinformed, confused, disappointed, or fearful on the journey of faith and they begin to fashion a god made in their image rather t… Read More
2018-09-12 00:06
Religion meets Grace The 3rd chapter of John’s gospel is one of the most well-known passages in the entire Bible, especially John 3:16, and for good reason. It is a beautiful, though b… Read More
2018-07-03 00:33
Jesus knows the real you! At the end of the second chapter of John’s gospel is a stark reminder that you can’t fool God. I can fool you and you can fool me but neither of us can… Read More
2018-06-18 19:28
If self-proclaimed “Christians” at large were polled, or questioned, I believe it would be shocking how little people who claim to be followers of Jesus really know. I don… Read More
2018-06-14 00:17
Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection 18 So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” 19 Jesus answered them, “D… Read More
2018-06-03 01:12
Jesus Cleanses the Temple 13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep an… Read More
2018-05-24 16:22
The first Miracle of Jesus The Wedding at Cana 2 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited… Read More
2018-05-13 20:16
“Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” When the President, a dignitary, or some other celebrity is to visit a certain venue a key person, often called a &l&hell…Read More
2018-04-16 17:34
The key verse of the Gospel of John, in my view, is found in chapter 1 verse 14. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as… Read More
2018-04-10 02:09
John has set before the reader the case for who the man Jesus is. He is God, the Creator, the Life and Light of the world. Now we come to an important section of text in chapter 1 verses 9-1… Read More
2018-04-06 00:56
Not only is Jesus Christ “life”, He is “light”. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and… Read More
2018-03-24 02:03
The opening words of John’s gospel are: 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with G… Read More
2018-03-11 17:38
I think of the Gospel of John as an overview of the New Testament. The aged apostle wrote his gospel many years after all of the other books of the NT were written. The only older writings a… Read More
2018-03-08 02:39
Is the Jesus you follow the Jesus you run to when you are in trouble? When the doctor says “it’s cancer” and you want someone who actually knows Jesus to pray for you or yo… Read More
2018-03-07 19:51
The Gospel of John is unique among the other gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke). The “synoptic” gospels each see things the same way as the other two. They are different in many w… Read More
2017-10-27 02:31
The statement above was the frantic outcry of the Jewish opposition to Paul and Silas and their followers as they advised the Roman authorities of the danger these men posed who claimed that… Read More
2017-06-22 04:11
Every person who is mentally functional will imagine a future filled with good things. The vision of what is hoped for is more clear to some and very blurred and obscure others. Some people… Read More
2017-05-15 12:15
Largely because we humans are creatures of habit, we really value what we regularly do. And, that is even more evident regarding what we do on Sunday morning at church and how we do it… Read More
2016-12-16 17:32
It is becoming more and more common to hear from a self-declared Christian, “I deserve to be happy”, or “I believe God wants me to be happy”. At first glance, either… Read More
2016-01-17 21:46
Jesus Christ personally commissioned his apostles to make disciples of all the nations, to baptize believers and teach them to do everything Jesus commanded (Matt 28:18-20; Mark 16:15-16; Lu… Read More
2015-11-24 04:20
Originally posted on Grace Digest: Lost in a thicket of Arminian and Calvinist debate, we sometimes lose sight of the grand truths we hold in common… By Edward Fudge What does it mean… Read More
2015-11-24 04:16
Originally posted on Grace Digest: I started studying the Bible when I was in my early twenties. I had been in Sunday school classes, Vacation Bible school, and church services but had… Read More
2015-07-26 19:21
Today, as we shared communion with our church family I thought about this……. Jesus was broken so my brokenness could be healed. I remembered his broken body. “The life of… Read More
2015-07-22 06:36
God is not looking for a better you so he can love you the way He wants. No! God wants you to run into the embrace of Jesus, just as you are, an ungodly, wicked, sinner. Christ didn&r&hell…Read More
2015-01-18 16:31
When I was a child, we often sang a hymn that admonished us to “trust and obey,” assuring us that “there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus.” The two verbs go… Read More
2015-01-13 02:04
So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the… Read More
2014-12-30 14:13
I am certain that some of you who read this will have heard gospel singer Vestal Goodman sing the following lyrics with her signature voice. Songwriter Lynda Randle wrote these words: Life i… Read More
2014-12-21 14:05
Everyone wants to be Merry, or Happy all the time, but especially at Christmas. I sure do! The problem is life doesn’t always cooperate. Circumstances that make you and I happy ebb and… Read More
2014-12-16 05:59
The original founders of the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement (RM) had known, understood, and preached Jesus Christ. However, from the second generation forward, Jesus Christ himself grad… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Of all the people I know, no one better exemplifies the Christ-life than my dear friend Edward Fudge. Those who know Edward will all agree that he is a Jesus-man. He is a gospel machine! One… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The following passage from 1 Corinthians 11 is the most often read section of Scripture when believers are about to observe the Lord’s Supper together. It is a quote from the Apostle P… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This is part of a comment I posted on a friend’s blog. _____________________________________ The good news about Jesus’ work for the ungodly is not about our “doing”… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
One day each year Americans officially acknowledge our racist past. On Martin Luther King Day government offices and schools close and black folks have parades and speeches and white people… Read More
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