Awareness is the experience of immediately conceptualizing what you perceive. You hear a sound, observe an event, touch an object, smell a fragrance, taste a food, sense emotions and attitudes and then make a conclusion. If it carries a newness about it there is that ‘aha!’ moment. If it is a repetition of an experience it is catalogued as something to anticipate in order to avoid or accept like a sunburn or a suntan, an enemy’s insult or a friend’s smile, rejection or…

There was a person we knew in New Hampshire that came up with the expression ‘Think Snow’ and started the bumper sticker craze for skiers. The idea was to get people to think about all the things that snow offers; the thrill of skiing, having a skill and developing it to look good, the beauty of nature, the pleasure of fellowship around a nighttime fire and spirited beverages, the possibility of meeting someone for an alluring relationship. To ‘Think Snow’ is to make one season the pinnacle…

The Bible is only as effective as the faith in Jesus we bring to it. Anything less reduces it to just another religious book. The Bible is a spiritual, personal and relational development manual. It takes faith to understand it, to embrace it and to share it. Its authenticity and contents are not measured by the response it gets but by the Lord God who authored it.

Again it is how open we are to the Bible that determines the benefits it offers. Jesus gives us a method to achieve that…

Awareness is the experience of immediately conceptualizing what you perceive. You hear a sound, observe an event, touch an object, smell a fragrance, taste a food, sense emotions and attitudes and then make a conclusion. If it carries a newness about it there is that ‘aha!’ moment. If it is a repetition of an experience it is catalogued as something to anticipate in order to avoid or accept like a sunburn or a suntan, an enemy’s insult or a friend’s smile, rejection or…

Jesus gives us the key to seeing the OT as a treasure revealing Him not only as the Messiah but as the Son of Man who lives a perfect human life and the Son of God who lives God’s perfect spiritual life in the Holy Spirit. The clearest passage is Luke 24:13-35 and especially His summary in vs.27, “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself.”

First, this makes His statement about why He wanted to be…

The following is an outline, a part of a series, a discussion starter, a way to approach the Bible in a group, to start the ball rolling, so to speak.......

If you have ever been on the top deck of a tall building like the Empire State Building in Manhattan, the Eiffel Tower in Paris or on some observation platform in the mountains there are telescopes through which you can scan the area around. Or you may have a microscope to see the unseeable. The Bible is our telescope and…

When I say “Getting the most” I mean the attitude with which we approach the Bible. That has everything to do with what the Bible offers. In Matt.16 Jesus asks Peter who people think the Son of Man is. Peter says, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets. “But what about you?” He asked. “Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter answers, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

The Culture of Acceptance

I grew up in a…

Flush from a wonderful Easter service and a delightful lunch with friends I was resting at home.

I happened to be watching the National Geographic channel, at least I think it was that channel. The program was covering what is known as the ‘Higgs Boson Particle’ which just the program said may be the foundational particle in the universe, the ‘God particle.’ There is even a 17 mile long collider in France that sends particles crashing into each other to prove the point. Now I’m…