Photo by Wade Austin Ellis on Unsplash Public Discipleship. Post #4 No one would mistake me for a kind person, in my younger years. Early in my life I was more of a controlled-anger kind of individual. And kindness is still something difficult for me to express, even...
An extension of Sermon XLV in our series on Zechariah. It is really necessary to slow down, even when it is counter intuitive. All around us, our culture is telling to go faster, to expedite all of our interactions as much as we can, all in the name of...
Expanding on last Sunday’s sermon The topic of God’s judgement and His divine justice is one that can create havoc in almost any social gathering, mostly because its implications are very unsettling. If God is judging evil among the nations, the...
A commentary on last Sunday’s sermon Zecharia 11 Redeeming culture – using a covenant to express the certainty of His Work Covenants are cultural artifacts that are not unique to the Bible. In Old Testament times, covenants were something common, specially...
We are frequently told that before we can love others, we must love ourselves. The implication here is that we cannot assist anyone one unless we are personally in optimal conditions; the circumstances we are in, then, dictate how we live this life. Now, the passage...
Zechariah 11:1-3. Sermon XXXIX. Anno Domini Last Sunday we talked about how circumstances are not the standard by which we should measure God’s work in and for us. The text also guided us to consider what we really believe about our dependency on His Beauty, not only...