February 26, 2014
Prayer is a personal learning experience that becomes the art of living. I learned mine from my mother and grandmother. It has served me over eighty-four years. During that time, I have been exposed to painters, poets and writers that…
February 21, 2014
Prayer goes hand in hand with our desire, our needs, our wants and wishes. It grows out of our aspirations, our circumstances, our experience, our predicaments and a host of things we encounter. No one lives without prayer; regardless, of…
February 17, 2014
We live in a fallen and sinful world. It is made up of matter and matter deteriorates. Let me repeat what I wrote in my Preamble. The cosmos is aging and fallen beings and spirits are also managing it. Man…
February 10, 2014
God’s plan to redeem the world began with the coming of Jesus the Christ, the Son of God. “For God did not send his Son to condemn the world, but to save the world through him” (Jn. 3:17). Paul had…
February 5, 2014
Paul and Peter believed that the Scriptures were a dictation of the Spirit of God (II Tim. 3:16; II Pe. 1:20-21), and Jesus admitted that they did not make sense to those that reason (Mt. 11:25); yet, they proceeded from…
February 1, 2014
The Promises of God, how do they affect the future? There was a definite change with the arrival of Jesus. He became the future. A new age began with him and in him. It was Jesus who declared: “For all…
January 28, 2014
Paul’s interpretation of the Antichrist and the last days gave rise to serious questions. The Gospel writers were not the only ones searching for answers. The writer of the Epistles of John became very specific regarding Antichrist and the end…
January 22, 2014
Freedom in Paul’s world did not exist. He was persecuted, imprisoned and ultimately executed for his loyalty to Christ. It was under such uncertainties that Paul advocated freedom as being a state of mind. “Each one should remain in the…
January 16, 2014
“Christ is the completion (telos) of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes” (Ro. 10:4). “So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good” (Ro. 7:12). “For it is not…
January 11, 2014
“If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men” (I Cor. 15:19). “Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know…