Fulness πλήρωμα (Pleroma)

This morning was my first official day of fully taking the reigns of a youth Sunday School class. I have often filled in many times, and was on a rotation with others for the jr high. The students had just returned from a week at Camp Eagle, where I asked them to share their experiences,…

Humble עָנָה

For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. Rm 12:3 A few months have passed since I’ve published an article, which…

The Confused Christian – The Holy Bible

Found this in my drafts and going to go ahead and publish it due to the amount of work that went into this. How do we know the Bible is the inherent word of God? In this series of studies from The Confused Christian, I have considered and studied some of the history of how…

An Internal Confession with the Shema Prayer

Saturday night, I received word that a lady in her fifties had passed from death to a new life. A few years back, we had went to the same church, sang in the choir, and my family saw her twice a year at the dentist office. She was always smiling, joyful, and full of life.…

Happy Purim – ELS Study

Thursday and Friday night I was invited to a small group Bible study, where we went over the book of Esther in celebration of Purim. I did not know the Jewish people had a feast called Purim, and began not only to read Esther, but to learn how it is celebrated. I even made Haman-Taschen…

Crieth from the ground

Happy New Year. This morning, I want to share something interesting that recently struck me as “wow.” The other night, my wife and I were watching a documentary. In one scene, cadaver dogs were brought to a person’s property to determine if there were any human remains buried in the land. The trainer explained which…

06 Timeline – Egypt to Exodus

Key: Red is a calculation or estimation but no specific data is given upfront. Bars shaded in light blue (Jochebed, Kohath, Amram and Miriam are their life spans using logic. Yellow arrows are showing the bar could move in either direction. If you have your Bibles, I want you to turn to Exodus 12, versus…

As God/gods

Hoping to share a short article on a little surprise I had not seen before in my in depth studies of the first few chapters of Genesis. In the 3rd chapter, the serpent beguiles Chava (Eve in English), and the following is recorded: “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then…

What’s in a Biblical Name?

Whether one agrees with me or not, personally, God has led me to study the Hebrew language.  Some of my Christians acquaintance want me to refrain from this and stick to a KJV only format, others are Greek only with the Septuagint, and when I have discussions with those claiming to be Jewish, they cannot…

04 Timeline – the life of Abram/Abraham

As we are at part four of the timeline, I wrote about a Jewish riddle in the previous studies, to test a prospect to determine if one is ready to study Torah, the first five books of the Bible. Two thieves come down the same chimney.  One comes out with a dirty face, the second…