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August 31
Day 170: Repentance is the Application Strangely, I'm going all theological here on a Monday morning... John 3:5 has always been contested. Not so much over what Jesus said to Nicodemus, but what He meant by what He said. In response to Nicodemus's question, "How can someone be 'born again?'" Jesus said, "Truly, truly, I […]
August 30
Day 169: The Crux of the Issue Not all of the Gospel accounts were written by eye witnesses. Mark and Luke, relied on eyewitnesses. The remaining two wrote their gospels from first person experience. For both were numbered among the 12. Matthew 10 seems a long, drawn out commissioning service. Jesus has just called them […]
August 29
Day 168: Misconstrued In Mark chapter 5, the gospel writer records Jesus out doing miraculous stuff. The previous chapter gives us what is perhaps one of the better known acts: Jesus calming a storm at sea. Those of us who grew up in Sunday School classes remember coloring a printed page of Jesus telling the […]
August 28
Day 167: Lubrication I prayed with other men this morning. I gathered with Mark, Joe, Paul, Daniel and Joel. Early in the morning. Sitting in a circle in Joel's garage. Coffee in hand. I think this is the most important and effective thing we do to serve our church. (I could stop right here, but […]