New Year’s Resolutions?

I no longer make resolutions, per se.  There are of course a thing or two I would like to change, and in the spirit of turning over a new leaf, it’s hard not to be caught up in the moment.
In the last few weeks, I’ve started several different books and haven’t finished any.  I think [...]

Wacky Questions & Trivia, episode 3

Actually, this one may not be so wacky.  I saw this evening where someone had been searching for occurrences of knives in the Bible, specifically the word “knife.”  By the way, when I searched for knife, I went first to the ESV website and then to Biblegateway, both listed under Useful Links in the right-hand [...]

Merry Christmas

4th Sunday in Advent – Peace

Today is the 4th Sunday of Advent.  Let’s begin with a review.  The first Sunday of the Advent season was Hope, and we lit the candle of Prophecy.  The second Sunday was Faith, and we lit the Bethlehem candle.  The third Sunday was Joy, and we lit the Shepherd’s candle.  Today is the Sunday of [...]

Christmas Greetings from Jeff and Walter

We just finished watching Jeff Dunham’s Very Special Christmas Special.  This sample contains 3 clips; I especially enjoyed the first one. 
 
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Wacky questions, episode 2

Wacky questions.  You know, like if I say to my history class “Lincoln was shot at the Ford Theater,” and a student asks “What movie was he watching?”  This is my second installment of wacky theological questions and/or search engine terms.  Today’s example is of the latter.
This phrase, typed into a search engine, brought 3 [...]

Rethinking the Wise Men

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, 2 saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”  Matthew 2:1-2

Take a good look [...]

Advent, week 3

Today is the third Sunday of Advent.  As I’ve been writing on Advent, I had to admit that I’m sort of new to celebrating it myself.  My family didn’t have an Advent tradition as I grew up, so I’ve only been studying it for a couple of years.  I shared some resources in my first post, [...]

Immanuel, God With Us

Isaiah prophesied of the coming Messiah, saying that a virgin would conceive and have a child, and his name would be called Immanuel.  When Matthew quotes Isaiah he adds that Immanuel means “God with us.”  That’s the true meaning of Christmas.
I recently wrote that when we could not come to God, he came to us.  [...]

Bittersweet

As a small child, we are taught a few emotional expressions.  We all learn happy, sad, angry and surprised at a young age.  The natural maturation process eventually teaches us that all things are not so simple.  Sometimes good news has a sting to it, or we take bad news and try to find the [...]