God loves to blend the natural with the supernatural. Examples of this are all throughout the Bible, human history, and even our present society. Whether to view specific things as natural or supernatural is more of a personal choice than anything else. We are so accustomed to being...
Before your brain starts going down the wrong path, we are not talking about a weapon that shoots cannonballs when lit (that’s a cannon, with two n’s). The canon we are talking about this week is the Biblical canon, which is the list of books considered to be Scripture by the Christian...
A little over a month ago, a story that was national news was the sudden and tragic passing of singer Whitney Houston. About a week after her passing, many of the news networks aired a memorial service for her that took place at her childhood church in Newark, NJ. I was able to catch...
“I am the church. You are the church. We are the church together! All who follow Jesus, all around the world, yes we’re the church together!”That song is what I think of when I ponder the question of what is the church. (Can you tell I spent a number of years helping my mom teach kindergarten...
“Simon Peter answered, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God’” (Matthew 16:16 [NIV]). With this one confession, Jesus’ oldest and boldest of all his disciples started a movement that would eventually grow into the world’s most popular religion. But his statement would also pave...
This week’s word of the week, Christ, has significant meaning to those of both the Jewish and Christian faith. Christ is from Christos in the Greek and from mashiah in the Hebrew, and it literally means messiah, or anointed one, or a coming deliverer. It has different meaning to each...
When I first saw the word for this week, I immediately thought of lyrics from two of my favorite country songs (I know I'm probably almost completely alone in that, but to each his own, and in this case country music is my "own"). The two songs are "Baptism" by Kenny Chesney and Randy...
