Roadmap to Surrender
Jesus set us up with a road map on how to live life on earth. As he says in John 14:4 you know the way but several of the disciples did not comprehend it. The good news is Jesus set us with a path to Him through the Cross.
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His Love and Our love (part 1)
The first fruit of the spirit that is found in Galatians 5:22 is love. When you look at the five earliest known translations of the Holy Bible, the older versions say Charity while the new ones use Love. The Latin Vulgate (390 AD), the Wycliffe (1382 AD) and the
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Charity (part two)
The first blog we talked about Love but the fruit of the Spirit is more than just love but love with Charity. The word Charity appears 28 times in the King James but in the Wycliffe New Testament it appears 118 times. Just like Love, there is good and bad
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Fruits of the Spirit (part 3)
Wycliffe (1384) Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, long abiding, benignity (good will), goodness, mildness, faith, temperance, continence, chastity; against such things is no law King James Galatians (1611) 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
Trusting God this New Year
As we embark on a new year and decade, it is a reminder to each of us reflect on the past year and decade or in my case the last two decades. 20 years ago Marcia and I trusted God in bringing us together. On the Brooklyn Bridge, January 1,
God & Darkness
Genesis 1:1-2 IN the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness " This is the hardest blog to write when talking about the beginning of time and space. Imagine a deep, dark, empty space where there is
When Legends Die
This past weekend, I attended a funeral in Birmingham, AL of an industry legend. When this person entered the room, it was as if the red carpet was rolled out. There was an old commercial when I was a teenager that would hit the airwaves as it would say “When
Light & Darkness
Genesis 1:3-4 3 And God said, Let there be light:...God divided the light from the darkness. John 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Imagine seeing a light stretch across a dark, empty universe for the first time. Like a flash.
Loving Light or Darkness
John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not
Three Days
Matthew 12:40 "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." The is perhaps the most perplexing verse in the Holy Bible. First,have
Inhumanity to Humanity
For those of you who get to Detroit, I would recommend visiting The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. You should plan to be there three to four hours. Why do I mention the museum? This past weekend with two colleagues and fellow Christians from India, we spent
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The seed is the word of God
Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God Mark 4:14 The sower soweth the word. Matthew 13: 37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; 38 The field is the world; the