It is interesting the details we are given about the life of Jesus and those that are omitted. If you think about all the details that play out in a three-year span of one’s life, which ones would be most important? What lessons can we learn from three seemingly insignificant passages about the life of Christ? “Now it happened that while the…

Do you remember the first time something that had been taught in school as truth was later shown to be incorrect? Apart from evolution and other pseudo sciences, for me it was Pluto. In 1996, its status was questioned when other objects larger than Pluto were found orbiting the Sun in the same area. In 2006, the scientific definition of a planet…

Apple received a letter from the California Teachers Pension (CalSTRS) investor Jana Partners recently. Apple was asked to develop software that would make it easier to control the amount of time children spend on their phone. Also, she asked them to do a study on excessive phone use and mental health. Apple responded saying that since 2008 they have had apps that…

Discernment is a valuable ability. It is not one that you are born with, but it is cultivated with knowledge and practice. This was Paul’s prayer of the Philippian church, “And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to…

There are some things you’ve said that you wish you could take back. What if you said them and they were recorded in the Bible? For thousands of years, you would be remembered as the person who said that. Let’s look at some things that shouldn’t have been said and the implications. Adam was the first man. Like all other men, he…

Paul mentions Timothy as co-sender of six of his letters. He also spoke highly of Timothy in his letter to the Philippians. He called Timothy “my true son in the faith.” In Paul’s final letter to Timothy, written near the end of his life, he speaks without reserve, calling Timothy “my beloved child,” for Timothy was truly part of Paul’s lineage, wealth…

David Cassidy, better known by some as Keith Partridge, was a famous actor, singer and song writer in the 70s. As some stars do, David had a rough go at life. Before his fall he was twice bankrupt, had been through several marriages, numerous DUIs and on November 27, 2017, he died of liver failure. His daughter, Katie Cassidy, reported that his…

Something that has been repeating over and over in my mind lately is this, “Rule without relationship equals rebellion.” My mind map goes from there to God, and I begin to question my relationship with God. “If I knew God more, would I rebel less?” My next thought is, “How well do I know God?” Theologically I can know about God, but…