Marriage is God’s institution? No. God created marriage? Not quite. God is reflected in marriage? I mean; true but not we’re after. God is a covenant keeping God (Yes!) and marriage is his covenant between a man, a woman, and the Lord. Wait, I fell asleep just reading the title.… Read More »
Stuck In The Middle; Sheol And Hades
This Lord’s day, the planned sermons deal with crucifixion in the morning and resurrection in the evening. It seemed more than appropriate to look at the middle of that doctrinal sandwich. Between death and the second coming, some form of our being remains conscious and alive. Jesus points to the words of God to Moses… Read More »
Wow! That Is What Jesus Really Did?
Removing a dangling preposition is no miracle. It may make for clumsy sentence structure, but as Winston Churchill said about ending a sentence with a preposition, “This is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.” Please forgive the grammar-nerd humor. Don’t miss my new series entitled Vulcans and Klingons: Identifying The… Read More »
Study Material For John’s Apocalypse (articles and sermons)
Here is a series of bulletin articles and sermons on the book of Revelation. My prayer is that it is coherent and puts across a common-sense, consistent approach to the book. It is not as though I have a special capacity for understanding the book. However, once I became a minister, it became glaringly obvious… Read More »
The Last Of What Is Green
As I looked out my window this week, I saw a small bird hurriedly plucking off the last of the green shoots from our crepe myrtle. Summer is gone and the dry season comes on quickly. Shorter days, falling leaves, and empty nut shells left by industrious squirrels lead us toward the dark days of… Read More »
Galveston, Oh Galveston
The average temperature in Galveston, Texas is 57-degrees for the month of February. Tuesday morning it was 19, 95-percent of homes were without power, and six deaths were confirmed or being investigated as related to the weather conditions1. Unexpectedly, people were thrust into a world where the electrical power we all rely on to keep… Read More »
Death, Hades, Judgment, Heaven
Other than questions about salvation, the topic that seems to confuse people the most is, “What happens when we die?” Certainly there are things that remain unexplained: What kind of body will we have? How can God resurrect my body if it has returned to dust? Will I be aware of loved ones going to… Read More »