Category Archives: Bible Study

Detailed looks at Bible pas­sages from a more book­ish per­spec­tive. Although I make no claims to being a Bible scholar arti­cles pro­vide a more detailed, tech­ni­cal look at the scrip­tural top­ics that inter­est me. Spe­cial atten­tion is given to Jesus and prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tion of the Christian.

Do You Believe in the Trinity?

Dear Brother,
When you asked me this ques­tion the other day I found it was a one that I had sin­cere trou­ble answer­ing.  I do appre­ci­ate you ask­ing since it has given me some things to think about. Since then I have put some thought into it and offer this as a belated expla­na­tion of why I had dif­fi­culty answering.   As an explanation, I

The Lamb and the Shepherds

In last Sunday’s blog entry, “The Christ­mas Myth”, we com­pared ele­ments of the pop­u­lar Nativ­ity story with what the Bible actu­ally says about the birth Jesus. In doing so I left out one major piece of the story — the shep­herds who visit Jesus. This was inten­tional; because as far as I

The Christmas Myth

Each Decem­ber brings an abun­dance of Christ­mas themed movies to tele­vi­sions sets across the coun­try. My favorite is “Meet Me In St. Louis”; which some­how gets clas­si­fied as a Christ­mas film despite the fact the win­ter seg­ment is just one of four sea­sonal vignettes. Per­haps it gets the nod for Judy

Foreband Technology

Early one morn­ing I awoke with the strange phrase, “fore­band tech­nol­ogy” repeat­ing in my head. I had the impres­sion that this was a word from the Lord and I was very curi­ous to under­stand what it could mean. As I checked my morn­ing e-mail I plugged the term in a Google search.