Category: Epistles

20-Nov-16 Colossians 1:15-20 All of us have images in our minds of Jesus that we keep and cherish. And as our observance and celebration of Christmas gets closer and closer, and at a fairly rapid pace, I might say, some of those images in our minds will be switching over to a little boy in […]

06-Nov-16 II Thessalonians 2:13-17 Whenever the Apostle Paul issues a thanksgiving to one of the churches in his charge, it is a thanksgiving that is always genuine and always from the heart. Only once, in all of his letters to churches, does Paul omit a thanksgiving. And that occurs, or does not occur, as the […]

30-Oct-16 Isaiah 1:10-20 Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! By the time that Isaiah is writing his prophecy, the much despised cities of Sodom and Gomorrah have long been gone. In fact, they have both been gone for centuries. There […]

07-Aug-16 Hebrews 11:1-16 Last week we met a fellow who, by the grace of God, came into a whole lot of wealth. He was already rich to begin with, and that probably didn’t help him much, but when he gained this additional wealth, it went straight to his head. It was all that he could […]

03-Jul-16 Galations 6:1-10 This weekend, as we prepare to celebrate our independence from the British Empire, I thought it might be good to talk a little bit about our interdependence in the Kingdom of God. The Apostle Paul had a somewhat touchy relationship with the Christians in the Province of Galatia, and I’m pretty sure […]

06-Mar-16 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Bring up the name of Jesus any place but in a church and you’re apt to hear a variety of opinions about the man. You might hear, “Oh, he never existed. He is merely the figment of some well-meaning but over-active imaginations”. Or you might hear something a little more charitable […]

28-Feb-16 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 The escape from Egypt, or the Exodus from Egypt, tends to be a common theme that shows up in the Scripture passages that we focus on during Lent. And that’s because as we move toward Easter and the triumphant salvation event that we celebrate at Easter, it does us some good, […]

21-Feb-16 Philippians 3:17-4:1 Sometimes when we read our Bibles through the filters of our very modern minds, we tend to squirm a little bit. From a very modern perspective, sometimes the things that we read in our Bibles might seem to be a bit off, or a little hinky, or sometimes downright wrong. And I’d […]

24-Jan-16 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 Once in a great while, I start to fantasize about how grand it might be to go back to the first century church. There are some really awesome things about the early church that would be wonderful to return to, but there are also some really terrible things about the early […]

04-Oct-15 Hebrews 4:14-16 This is not an easy world in which to live. And it never has been. We certainly wish that this was not true, but it is. We yearn for a life of ease and pleasure, and even if we manage to attain it, we are never quite satisfied, especially when it comes […]