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Today’s lesson scripture is from Proverbs: 1 Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight; 2 for I give you good precepts: do not forsake my teaching. 3 When I was a son with my father, tender, and my mother’s favorite, 4 he taught me, and said to me, “Let your heart hold [...]

Well, we had a good discussion yesterday about diversity and unity in Christ.  Often we are confounded by what appears to go beyond paradox in scripture and into frank contradiction.  How can this be?  That’s more than the struggle of 2,000 odd years of Christianity – an older question than that posed by the writers [...]

The difference in the “secret” revealed in Christ as opposed to the secret that mortals look for is that – paradoxically – the secret is simple and out in the open.  Even a child can understand and grasp such secrets.  I read once that when we are young we can hear a certain all pervading sound [...]

Do you see why I’ve started blogging again this week?  Today’s lesson is entitled “God’s secret revealed”.  Okay, so let’s take a look at the lesson scripture for today: 1  Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the [...]

Today’s scripture is from the Gospel of Matthew: 10 Then the disciples came and asked him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” 11 He answered, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. 12 For to those who have, more will [...]

     When our children were small, family vacations were times that they relished.  It was a time for them to get away, do something fun and they looked forward to having an opportunity to spend their saved allowances on whatever treasure their heart desired. They also knew, from previous vacations, that if their funds were [...]

Then have done with falsehood and speak the truth to each other, for we belong to one another as part of one body. – Ephesians 4:25  We have been adopted, called, empowered and gifted to receive the incredible privilege of being co-laborers of God, lovers of one another, and those who shared God’s love with [...]

Never cease to love your fellow Christians.  Do not neglect to show hospitality; by doing this, some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:1-2  Never neglect to show kindness and to share what you have with others; for such are the sacrifices which God approves.  Hebrews 13:16  In today’s lesson, What Defines Christian Community, Maxie Dunnam [...]

Recent events in my life have prompted me to keep a daily journal of my prayers and conversations with God.  I’ll call these my “Love Letters to God.”   Maxie Dunnam reminds us, and emphasizes, that “Jesus is alive today” and, therefore, the physical act of writing to Him allows me to “put our relationship in [...]

Ephesians 2:8 speaks to us of God’s grace through Christ.  How do you relate this to the “spirit of adoption” that Paul writes of in Romans 8.  How do we accept that we are children of God, and not just children, but “joint heirs with Christ”?  Do you feel that this requires some overt act [...]