I read an interesting headline this week. It was fascinating for a number of reasons. The Pope is wanting to change the exact line of the Lord’s Prayer that we are discussing today. You know, if you know me at all, that I really care little concerning the doings of...
How often do you sin? How often do I sin? Sin and its relation to prayer with God is something that we have to consider when praying. And here, Jesus tells us how we are to think about our sin and pray about it. Jesus says here that we are to pray, “Forgive us our...
How do you get bread? Just think about how you get bread for a moment. We will work backwards and by the end of this you should have a pretty good idea of why we did this little exercise. You sat down at the table and had bread at dinner. Where did the bread come...
Sometimes you run into concepts, as a person teaching the Scripture, that are pretty self-explanatory and I think that this is one of them. There isn’t going to be any earth-shattering information to be learned here. We will begin by thinking about what it means for...
A few weeks ago we established that not everyone has the right to call God Father. Only those who have trusted in Christ are called Children of God. Our right to call God Father was purchased by the finished work of Christ on our behalf. Then we saw that God, whom we...
Last week we discussed the great honor of being able to call God Father. It is only through the finished work of Christ that we have the right to call God “Father”. So, now we will begin looking at the petitions that Jesus gave in the Lord’s Prayer...
From a very early age, Christian parents and Sunday School teachers teach their children that it is important to pray. Parents will oftentimes carve out time to pray with their child. But, it can be the case that even believers that we would think of as being pretty...
Over the past few weeks we have discussed the misinterpretation of different laws and the right interpretation of them. Jesus has shown us the meaning of the true meaning of the command not to commit murder and the command not to commit adultery, the seriousness of...
This is the week that we look back as a country to the horrific things that occurred on 9/11. I’m sure that your teachers discussed it with you and that you have seen videos of the destruction of the Twin Towers a few times in your life. I think that this is a good...
To avenge means to inflict harm for harm done to yourself. I happen to love a series of movies called the Avengers. Since I watched the first one I have tried to keep up with the movies and I have loved them as have many, many people. Marvel has made billions of...
Honesty is not that much fun, it doesn’t add viewers to your television shows, it doesn’t attract people to your business, and it’s just not that interesting. Someday, when your car is broken down and you can’t fix it then you’re not going to want interesting. When...
“I hate divorce”, God says in Malachi 2:16. A lot of us here might well say, “I do too.” We have seen either in ourselves or in the people around us the great damage that can be done in a divorce. So, I think we would come together as a group and say that we hate...
Yesterday, as I was scrolling through the Twitterverse, I saw that a man was executed for killing a store owner back in 2004. The taking of another human life has long been seen as the worst of things that can be done to another human being and this means that it has...
I was chatting with a pastor friend one time about a Jewish teacher’s understanding of a certain text of the Old Testament. He laid down his answer as if it was the final word. My response sent him into a state of shock: “His understanding is not authoritative. He...
If you will remember quite some time ago the first Captain America movie was released in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Bucky Barnes and Steve Rogers became great friends. They were introduced when Bucky saved Steve Rogers in a back alley from a beating. Steve Rogers...
In this last post we will look at how the world views Christians and these characteristics that are worked into believers as well as the great and glorious promise that is given when we are persecuted. Christ saves His people and they are made different than the lost...
Yesterday we looked at the first two blessings that Jesus gave in the Sermon on the Mount. Here we will look at the 3rd-7th. These I put together here because they are somewhat related to one another. Their relationship is interesting. They have to do with character...
We will begin looking at the blessings that Jesus delivered in the Sermon on the Mount. They are related to each other so putting them together will make sense especially by the time this is finished. The Blessed Are Those Who Know They Are Spiritually Bankrupt...
In 2011 there was a private investigator named David Lundberg who was tasked with finding a man by the name of Max Melitzer. He had been hired by the family of Max’s brother. The story is very interesting because he had been living on the street, homeless finding...
Hello, again I am loading the section of the book we are working on every Wednesday. We are over halfway through our study on the Apostle’s Creed. I hope that the students are benefitting from this. And, I also hope that you are able to converse with your student...
Hello, again I am loading the section of the book we are working on every Wednesday. We are over halfway through our study on the Apostle’s Creed. I hope that the students are benefitting from this. And, I also hope that you are able to converse with your student...
