Imitating Good is Hard Work

3 John 1:9-11. " 9I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will have nothing to do with us. 10So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, gossiping maliciously about us. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the...

Obedience is not an Option

2 John 1: 4-6.  "4It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. 5And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. 6And...

Easter Week

We had a discussion yesterday about the meaning of Easter. Most people think of Easter in terms of our sin and Jesus’ passion, how Christ suffered on the cross to cleanse us from our sins. In my experience, cultivating a penitent heart has always been my focal...

John 2:12-25 – The Inconvenient Truth about Faith

In this passage, Jesus angrily clears the temple because his Father’s house of prayer had been turned into a marketplace.  A place where there ought to be worship and surrender and devotion to God had been intermixed with non-religious activities such as buying...