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So we begin a new quarter with a study of “Covenant Communities.  Yesterday, Brian made the comment that when we study and interpret Scripture together it’s like lighting several candles instead of one: the combined light is much more powerful and “illuminating”.  As I thought of what Brian said driving home, I was reminded of [...]

Good class yesterday.  It’s hard to believe this quarter is over.  I know that some class members prefer New Testament studies, but remember that Christ came to preach and to fulfill the “Law” – what we call the Old Testament today.  We had an interesting discussion concerning Israel and its conquest of Canaan and of [...]

We don’t know what’s best for us.  That may seem trite, but it depends on your viewpoint.  If your viewpoint is outside of any relationship with God, then it is trite indeed.  If your viewpoint is one of looking out from a relationship with God, then it is an absolute truth. I have wondered about [...]

I was talking with a friend earlier this evening and he said, in essence, that he didn’t want to study scripture, and dissect the word and debate what this or that verse might mean.  He wanted his faith to be simple – just belief.  He didn’t want to be worried with the logic or theology [...]

Yesterday we talked about God’s steadfast love – even in the face of disobedience.  The context of that scripture was after the exile, when Jerusalem was being rebuilt.  Today’s scripture takes us back more than 800 years to a time before Jerusalem and the Temple, when the people of Israel were about to cross over [...]

We’ve talked a good bit about the consequences of rebellion and disobedience over the past few weeks – and there certainly are such consequences – mainly brought upon ourselves by ourselves.  And, while we have studied instances of God’s  wrath in this past quarter, by far and away the God of the Old Testament is, [...]

Doubt.  Can you imagine that there were disciples in Galilee that doubted even in the presence of the risen Christ? 16 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority [...]

One of the things that bothers us sometimes is that God gave the land of Canaan to Israel – but in doing so others were dispossessed.  But is that really the point of the scripture?  When it comes down to it none of this world “belongs” to any of us – despite what we might [...]

We’ve talked about disobedience and obedience throughout the week and in today’s class we discussed obedience in the context of the Gospel — that is, we talked about the “Means of Grace”.  We’ve referenced Wesley’s Sermon on the Means of Grace before and provided a link to his sermon.  Wesley preached about the means of [...]

How many of us seek God’s wisdom in the same way that we seek to earn money – to buy the things we want – to excel at a particular hobby or pastime?  What if we took knowing God as seriously as improving our golf game, or building that project, or our child’s excelling in [...]