General Support

This command can be summed up as "deal with your own sin." It comes from Matthew 5: 29-30, but we're going to back up just a little bit to verse 27 for context. You have heard it was said, "YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY", but I say to you that everyone who looks at a...

Starting in Matthew 5: 21, Jesus begins to talk about how we are supposed to handle our relationships with each other. Verses 21 through 26 can be summarized as Christ saying: "Be reconciled." Let's look at the whole passage: You have heard that the ancients were...

Let your light shine before men... Matthew chapter 5 brings us a lot of Christ's most famous teachings. It's where we find what's commonly referred to as "The Beatitudes (Matthew 5: 3-12). In fact, I debated and prayed about what to reference as part four of this...

This isn't a post that I was planning on when I sat down to ramble about the Bible and what God is showing me through it today. I know, however, that if I don't do this now, then I won't. I'm like that sometimes, but especially about things that can make me...

Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of people. Ok, so today, we get to talk about the first disciples and the command that I'm not sure I'd have listened to. I think it's easy to look at some of the teachings in from our perspective and think something along the...

Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand. As this series is focused on the commands Christ gave the church, I'm intentionally skipping over the responses Christ gives to the devil when he is in the desert facing temptation. While that experience is important to...

Okay, I know you're probably expecting something profound here and, while to me, it is, it might not feel that way to you at first. That's okay. Before I dive into it, however, I want to make sure to cover one key detail: this blog series is intended to cover direct...

One of my favorite verses in the Old Testament comes from Jeremiah, chapter 29 verses 11-12 (NASB): "For I know the plans that I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and...

If you've read my testimony on this site, you know that there was a long while that I stopped going to church and stopped surrounding myself with fellow believers. Looking back, it's clear that the events leading to my departure from organized religion were both part...

The First Temptation and The First Sin There are lot of folks who gloss over what the first sin really is, so I think it's important I start this off by making it clear that while the first sin may have involved fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, the...