When John is handed the scroll in Revelation, it is sealed with seven seals. We tend to read past that word. A scroll is not a book. A book lets me skip to the last chapter and read how it ends. A scroll will not. It is one continuous length, rolled, and if it is…
Matthew 13:33 ESV “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.” For Many – An Alarm More Questions Some Posts on Leaven Leaven plays such a significant role in Bible symbolism, yet there is a tremendous amount of confusion about…
This post is a follow-up to A Missing Lesson of The Sabbath God said it plainly: This month shall be for YOU the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for YOU. Exodus 12:2 That month is Nisan — spring. The feast calendar of Leviticus 23 runs from there. And the…
We come into the world confused. Not a little confused, and not about trivial things — confused about the deepest ones, and mostly without realizing it. Picture a table covered in puzzle pieces just dumped from the box: scattered, face-down, mixed up, nothing joined to anything. That is closer to the state we start in…
God spoke directly to the prophets — long ago, at many times and in many ways. Why does it seem he does not speak that way to us now? The question matters, because the answer changes how we listen: where we go to hear God, and what we are listening for. How Does God Speak…
How Does The Bible, ITSELF, Define The Word of God? In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The…
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. — Psalm 119:105 ESV How do you take that verse? Most of us take it a certain way without noticing we’ve taken it any way at all. It’s worth a slower look — not at the verse itself, but at what…
Understanding is simple enough for a child. Genuinely simple — not simplified, not dumbed down, but the kind of simple that a child walks into naturally and most adults have been trained out of. Two things children have that tend to disappear with age: humility (they don’t already think they know everything) and questions (they…
Children ask questions. Lots of them, one right after another, without embarrassment or apology. They are sponges. They are ferocious about learning. And Jesus points at them and says: this is what the kingdom requires. So — is there value in questions? What a Disciple Actually Is The word disciple carries a lot of religious weight, but…
Most of us are familiar with the seven individual feasts of God’s calendar — the seven holy days spread across the year in Leviticus 23. But Scripture introduces a separate, deliberate distinction. Twice, God names not the seven feasts but specifically three feast times: Three times in a year you shall keep a feast to…