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  • 1 Corinthians 13

    If it can be said that love fulfills the law, that is all of God’s standards, then our sin nature boils down to an inability to love.  We cannot love perfectly, if that was…

  • Mark 9

    Discussion on the Transfiguration 9:1-13 One must consider what the transfiguration of Christ meant for a group of chosen men who are still developing their theology about Christ, His transcendence and divinity. Scriptures make…

  • Jeremiah 12

    Why God? Why!? We hear this type of thing everywhere we go.  We have complained like this to God ourselves.  Whenever suffering appears in our lives we crease our foreheads and ask God, “Why…

  • 1 Samuel 1

    Judges Period Comes to a Close With the beginning of the book of Samuel, the final years of the Judge’s is recorded and enters into days of the kings.  Much of what we understand…

  • 1 Corinthians 3

    Everything is From God Paul is writing like a heart broken father pleading with wayward children.  His pleas are a mixed cocktail of rebuke and sadness.  Frankly the church is acting like babies (v1),…

  • Genesis 32

    God’s Reassurance and Faithfulness God’s faithfulness is on display when Jacob returns to the land he cheated his brother out of.  The significance of the angels in verses 1-2 denote God’s supernatural intervention in…

  • Matthew 20

    God is Sovereign in Whom and How He Blesses (1-16) The parable of the laborers  presents a theme that has been building throughout the Scriptures beginning in Genesis 1.  What theme?  God’s sovereignty.  God…

  • Romans 13

    Practical Gospel Application in Christian Living Paul is now giving some practical applications to “gospel” living.  Because of the gospel of Jesus Christ we are no longer slaves to sin are now slaves to…

  • Matthew 17

    Matthew 17 and The transfiguration of Christ is a turning point in the Jesus’ revelation of Himself to His men.  Many allusions tie themselves together here with the ministries of Moses and Elijah to…