Repentance Episodes
Grace and Resolutions
Before you go ahead and start the New Year with another resolution that will fail (80% of New Years resolutions fail within the month!) consider creating a resolution this year that can't fail! Episode Link: https://www.rabbi...
Jesus Says Who He Is Clearly - I and The Father Are One
We're on the last leg of Jesus' journey to the cross. One shift that I'm noticing is a focus on logic and argument derived from Scripture. Earlier in Jesus ministry, it was more about actions. Lately, Jesus is showing a comma...
The Right Side of the Door
As we continue along on our red-letter journey, we encounter Jews asking Jesus who will be saved. Will it be many or just a few? The beauty of following along chronologically is that we just heard Jesus discussing the narrow ...
Why Am I Not Dead Yet (Grace and the Fig Tree)
We drop into a conversation between some Galileans and Jesus in Luke 13:1-9. This is a fascinating discussion that is enriched with some historical backdrop. This is the first time we have encountered Pilate in the Red-Letter...
Apostasy
It's a subject that comes up again and again. "Once saved, always saved". And inevitably, embedded in that argument is "They went out from us, because they were not of us…” (1 John 2:19) leading to the response that if someon...
Saints and Sinners - Same Sins, Different Outcomes
We hop off the red-letter journey today. A brother approached me to look at this passage from 1John 5:16. If you see any brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give them life....
Rock Bottom
I think this is the slowest we've ever walked through scripture, and I think what the journey has produced is some of the richest revelation we've seen in the process. Today, we look at what happens to the prodigal son at his...
The Lost
It's probably the most well-known of all the parables. The Prodigal Son is often reduced to a story about the youngest son. If you do that, or understand it that way, you miss so much about what Jesus is teaching. We are goin...
Once Saved Always Saved?
I think typically when this debate comes up in conversation it is initiated by someone who is worried about stumbling. So, let's get that off the table even before we begin the debate. We all sin! I think that your response t...