The Good Ol’ Days
|I have found myself on a bit of a nostalgic kick lately. My wife and I have been watching shows from the 1980s and 1990s. I made a Spotify playlist … Continued
Delighting in Deuteronomy
|One of the best strategies to resist the temptations that come our way through the hand of Satan and his forces is to remember and even quote the Bible. This … Continued
He Still Gets Us
|Whether you love grammar or loathe it, we need to pay attention to it because small variations can result in vastly different meanings. In the past few blog posts, we … Continued
We Will Get Him
|Christmas and Easter are typically viewed as the two most important days of the year for Christians because they celebrate key truths of the Christian faith. When we celebrate Jesus’s … Continued
Why He Got Us
|“Why?” This question often asked by an inquisitive child is not childish, but rather one that we should continue to ask throughout our lives because it is important not just … Continued
How He Doesn’t Get Us
|A key theme in the New Testament Book of Hebrews is that Jesus “gets us” because he became “like his brothers and sisters in every way” (Hebrews 2:17) and has … Continued
What He Gets About Us
|I’ve previously written about how Jesus’s conception by the Holy Spirit and birth by the Virgin Mary reminds us who we are referring to when we say “He gets us” … Continued
Who Gets Us?
|A number of years ago, I read a book written by a pastor whose ministry I had been following with admiration. In his book he raised the question of whether … Continued
How the Book of Hebrews Shows Us That “He Get Us”
|Faith Church kicked off a sermon series this past weekend exploring a truth about Jesus that has been placed on billboards and TV commercials over the past couple of years:“He … Continued
Questions About the Return of Jesus and the End Times: Resurrection, the Mark of the Beast, and Going to Heaven
|This is the final post in which I am answering questions about Jesus’s return and the end times that we received. While I devoted an entire post to the questions … Continued
Questions About the Return of Jesus and the End Times: Millennial Kingdom and Preterism
|When we invited people at Faith Church to ask questions about Jesus’s return and the end times, we received multiple questions about two topics that I have written about in … Continued
Questions About the Return of Jesus and the End Times: Israel
|Last Fall we invited people to submit questions about the end times and Jesus’s return; the results indicated two topics of great interest. One was the rapture, which I discussed … Continued
Questions About the Return of Jesus and the End Times: Rapture
|In the Fall of 2023, Faith Church’s sermon series through the Gospel of Mark examined the Olivet Discourse found in Mark 13. In this discourse (which is also found in … Continued
Why We Should Love (the Book of) Numbers
|As I write this post, we are about to begin reading the Book of Numbers in Faith Church’s 4 Year Bible Reading Plan. This Old Testament book is rarely mentioned … Continued
What’s Leavening You? (Matthew 13:33 and 16:6, 11-12)
|One thing I really enjoy about using Faith Church’s 4 Year Bible Reading Plan to read through the entire Bible in 4 years by reading a chapter a day (6 … Continued
God is Still With Us
|During the Christmas season we proclaim (and sing!) that Jesus is Emmanuel/Immanuel (these words mean the same and come from how it is transliterated into English from Hebrew – Immanuel … Continued
Songs of Christmas: Joy to the World
|Even though we are past Christmas, I thought it would be good to explore one more well-known Christmas song – “Joy to the World” – because it is actually not … Continued
Songs of Christmas: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
|Many of our most well-known and beloved Christmas songs have origins in other countries (and in other languages), but there are a few that were written in America. One of … Continued
Songs of Christmas: Angels We Have Heard on HIgh
|If there was a formula to write a popular song, I highly doubt that Latin words or singing a word for over 12 beats (and moving up and down through … Continued
Songs of Christmas: God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
|Many of the Christmas carols we sing are translations from other languages. Other songs were originally written in English but use words that are uncommon or outdated, and thus need … Continued