In Marks gospel account, a woman pours perfume on Jesus’ body to prepare Him for his funeral (Mark 14:8). Jesus states out loud that she is preparing Him for His funeral, yet not one of the gospel accounts seem to indicate anyone, including His disciples, understood that He was going to the cross. Not that [...]
Filed under: Spiritual Thought on May 2nd, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Mark 2:1-11 discusses how Jesus healed the man with the mat. In Mark’s gospel account, the man is lowered from above because the crowd was so large. In all these years, I’ve never noticed that the man with the mat had friends! Not only friends, but persistent friends. Friends who will help in your time [...]
Filed under: Spiritual Thought on April 25th, 2010 | No Comments »
God’s children are to listen and obey what God tells them to do. But how can we hear God when he no longer speaks to us directly as He did in the Old Testament? He talks through His Word (the Holy Bible) and through prayer (Gen 24:1-66) He can use another believer to call you [...]
Filed under: Spiritual Thought on April 18th, 2010 | No Comments »
Recently I was at a Seminary wives fellowship, with Lucy Burggraff (Dr. Burggraff‘s wife) discussing the Presence of God. She named her talk before she knew there was a book entitled The Practice of the Presence of God (which I read a few years ago and absolutely loved). She gave us a truth : Devotional [...]
Filed under: Spiritual Thought on April 11th, 2010 | No Comments »
Does God really mean for us to take the Sabbath off as in no work–no cooking, cleaning, going to the office, writing a letter to a friend? I find the term Sabbath confusing since it is a commandment (Ex 20:10) after all. What exactly does “rest” mean. If we look at the New Testament, and [...]
Filed under: Spiritual Thought on March 21st, 2010 | No Comments »
Remember the woman who had been bleeding for 12 years? Mark 5:25-29 tells of this woman’s plight. This woman was unclean. Which meant that she could not participate in any worship. It meant that anyone who touched her, or she touched, became unclean. She was probably unwelcome in public places. The text tells us that [...]
Filed under: Spiritual Thought on March 14th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This teaching is from Dr. Stephen Davey during his preaching on Romans. This information is taken from my notes and is not the direct content of the message itself. Fruit of Speech (Heb 13:15) : exposure = influence. The more we are exposed to living Christians and the Bible the more influenced we are in [...]
Filed under: Spiritual Thought on March 7th, 2010 | No Comments »
Have you been confused about when the Old Testament saints would rise? The whole end times timeline has confused me, until today. Pastor Stephen Davey paused in our study of Revelation to answer some questions he had received from the congregation. I’ll try to explain the timeline answer here: We are currently in the church [...]
Filed under: Spiritual Thought on February 28th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A few years ago I heard a powerful sermon. The man who delivered the sermon was special to many people. Pastor Paul Jackson was head of Adult Ministries at Colonial Baptist Church at the time he gave this message. He has gone home to the Lord since then. His legacy lives on at Shepherds Theological [...]
Filed under: Spiritual Thought on February 21st, 2010 | No Comments »
It’s February. You’ve had a month to implement your New Year’s Resolutions. Was one of them to read the Bible in a year? If you are lagging behind, don’t give up! Find 2/19 on your Bible reading plan and simply start there. Give yourself a one time break. And NOW . . . try to [...]
Filed under: Spiritual Thought on February 19th, 2010 | No Comments »
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