YOUR TIME IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

This is a reminder that I will be in Tacoma for a conference on October 14-15.  For this one, I would really appreciate it if you sign up in advance.  Just click HERE. We need to know how many will attend, please. As always, I will try to bring topics that are enlightening, challenging, perhaps…

Present and Past

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy,  Jude 1:24 Is able to keep you – No one can keep you from stumbling if you want to fall. So Jude doesn’t write, “Now to Him who will prevent you…

A Jewish Messiah

He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming quickly.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. Revelation 22:20 NASB Come, Lord Jesus – erchou kyrie Iesou is the Greek text. But we would be sorely mistaken if we thought that John was writing about a Greek Messiah. When John expresses the desire for Yeshua HaMashiach to return quickly, he is…

Where We Live Now

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12 NASB The powers – “An idolatrous culture is one that sees reality in terms of impersonal forces. A Jewish culture is one that insists on the ultimate reality…

Divine Politics

“And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.” 1 Samuel 8:18 ESV In that day – The day will come when those who have chosen leadership other than YHVH will cry out to Him. They will finally realize…

Work Hard, Play Hard?

There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, Ecclesiastes 2:24 ESV Toil – “Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work we go.” Ah, the naiveté of those seven dwarfs in the Disney…

Quicksand Theology

“If you do this thing and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.” Exodus 18:23 NASB To endure – Maybe you feel a little like a James Bond martini these days. “Shaken, not stirred.” Maybe you feel as if all this exploration into…

The Messy Text

He said, “Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” Genesis 22:12 NASB Fear God – It’s an ancient but very important story. Christianity sees it as a type of the…

The Myth of Success

As he had come naked from his mother’s womb, so will he return as he came. He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand.  This also is a grievous evil—exactly as a man is born, thus will he die. So what is the advantage to him who toils for…