Continue reading “Without Distraction”And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
(1 Corinthians 7:35) KJV
Without Distraction
Dream and Coincidence
And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
(Luke 3:3) ESV
We had a dream this morning. In it we saw a beautiful new house. We knew whose house it was, but you don’t need to know that. It sat on the left of a coastal bay which swept around to the right.
Continue reading “Dream and Coincidence”A Logical Antidote to Guilt
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
(Romans 3:21-23) ESV
Scientific advancement has reached the point where we really can know the answers to some of the questions that people have wondered about for millennia.
Continue reading “A Logical Antidote to Guilt”The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
(2 Timothy 2:15) KJV
Our unified theory of everything is, in large part, based on a theory of Biblical quantum gravitation (BQG). Gravity is something that’s been with us for a very long time. Us as in me, not us as in everyone else.
Continue reading “The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon”The Church Balcony
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
(Job 11:7-8) KJV
Can we by searching find out God? The clear implication is that no, we can’t, but there’s something important to remember whenever we contemplate passages from the book of Job: Who’s speaking?
Continue reading “The Church Balcony”Constraining Obligations
They shall take care of all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting and fulfill obligations for the Israelites by attending to the service of the tabernacle.
(Numbers 3:8) BSB
A note which was written in an old Bible of ours (which somehow got lost) was taken from something a preacher said at Calvary Baptist Church in Carrboro, NC. We have always felt encouraged by it.
Continue reading “Constraining Obligations”Cherish the tender Spirit of your constraining obligations.
– Preacher at Calvary Baptist Church, Carrboro, NC
Big Woods Road
And David stayed in strongholds in the wilderness, and remained in the mountains in the Wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand.
(1 Samuel 23:14) NKJV
Big Woods Road runs along the Western edge of Jordan lake and connects Jack Bennett Road with US Highway 64. Back in 1999 it was somewhat off the beaten track and it was the kind of place where all you were likely to find were a few Good Old Boys parking their beat up pickup trucks by the side of the road so that they could cut through the woods and go fishing in the lake.
Continue reading “Big Woods Road”The Reptile-Mammal Transition
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
(Jeremiah 9:12) KJV
The reptile-mammal transition is abiogenesis not evolution. It’s evidence that God created in a systematic manner of increasing complexity.
Continue reading “The Reptile-Mammal Transition”Thou Shalt Keep Them
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
(Psalms 12:6-7) KJV
We began to search out Bible passages that would substantiate the link between God can’t lie and the Bible is true. Before we knew it we were reaching for our copy of Thou Shalt Keep Them.
Continue reading “Thou Shalt Keep Them”The Parable of the Sower
“Listen, then, and learn what the parable of the sower means. Those who hear the message about the Kingdom but do not understand it are like the seeds that fell along the path. The Evil One comes and snatches away what was sown in them. The seeds that fell on rocky ground stand for those who receive the message gladly as soon as they hear it. But it does not sink deep into them, and they don’t last long. So when trouble or persecution comes because of the message, they give up at once. The seeds that fell among thorn bushes stand for those who hear the message; but the worries about this life and the love for riches choke the message, and they don’t bear fruit. And the seeds sown in the good soil stand for those who hear the message and understand it: they bear fruit, some as much as one hundred, others sixty, and others thirty.”
(Matthew 13:18-23) Good News Translation
The parable of the sower used to be a source of waking dread for us (that’s me and the Holy spirit). It’s not the parable itself that scares us, it’s how Jesus explained the parable.
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