Good Friday has always been the most meaningful to me, of the Holy week days from the triumphal entry to Easter. Mostly because growing up in my Catholic home, my mother insisted on a practice of silence in our house between 12:00 noon and 3:00 PM on Good Friday. Yes, silence. In our home on Good Friday for those 3 hours we were committed to not speaking unless it was an emergency (including no radio and … Continue reading →
I would like to share with you a recently posted article at www.calvarychapel.com that goes with our current teaching series on the Gospel of John: “6 Reasons Why I Believe Jesus is God” by John Hwang. The above article is an easier read, because it is a bullet point type of layout of proof texts listed according to six categories, thus the 6 Reasons Why I Believe Jesus is God.
Continue reading →Two things I’d like to mention by way of follow-up on our introduction to the book of John on Sunday, March 6, 2016… • The Got Questions? website has a great reply to the question “What does it mean that Jesus is the Son of God?” at http://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-Son-of-God.html and I want to share an important great thought from that article: “Another example can be found in John 17:12 where Judas is described as the “son of perdition.” John … Continue reading →
With the presidential campaigning the term “evangelical” has been thrown around rather loosely and has many of us believing that the American public has come to interpret that term differently today than they once have. Like the definition of “marriage” in the public eye, the definition of “evangelical” appears to be changing, too. In recent years I have used the term “biblical” to replace the term “evangelical” in a lot of my conversations, because a … Continue reading →
A few weeks ago I made mention of an individual in Knoxville, Tennessee who visited over 40 churches before finding one that met his criteria of being a “teaching through the Bible” church. After that Sunday Bible teaching when I mentioned that as an illustration to a point about the Bible, I began thinking that surely I read 20 some churches not 40 some churches. Well, I found the article where I read that and here … Continue reading →
