Tag: John

  • Free?

    How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?” We are slaves to our past. We are slaves to our culture. We are slaves to our traditions. “I was born (Hispanic, Asian, black, white… whatever excuse.)” The Pharisees were proud of being born Hebrew; proud of their Jewish past. In fact, they were slaves…

  • The Time Is Near for our Church – Prologue

    1 The revelation [apokalypsis] of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2 who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. 3 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words…

    hour glass - text: the time is near - Is Lent a time for contrition?
  • Why Not Saul?

    The scene above is much later in life after the Lord has rejected Saul as King and he asks a witch to speak with the dead Prophet Samuel. 1 Samuel 28 It’s too late. The die is cast. What happened? How did Saul lose favor with the Lord? Earlier (before it was too late)… 1…