Put your hand over your heart. To more appreciate God’s heart; let’s understand what He created in our bodies and how it reflects His very essence. The human heart weighs approximately 11 ounces, is the size of a large fist. It is the strongest muscle in the body and pumps 1,800 gallons of blood. The […]
Archives: Teachings
Tears from the Faucet
When my nephew was four years old, he came over to my house one evening so I could babysit. I knew initially that our evening together would ultimately involve chasing, wrestling, and hide-and-go-seek. While we were engaging in this normal banter of kidding around – no pun intended, something occurred that momentarily sidelined our amusement. […]
The Tabernacle of God in the Wilderness of Sinai: A Study Introduction and Study of the Outer Court
If you were going to build a house for yourself and your family, you would have specific plans drawn up, and you would oversee that the instructions are carried out to the minutest detail. The Tabernacle Is a place for God to dwell. The Names of the Tabernacle (There are seven, God’s perfect number) Tent-Ex. […]
The Earthly Tabernacle of God
The sanctuary, Tabernacle, was for God, not man. The sanctuary or tabernacle of man is equally for God and not himself. Under Divine architecture, maintenance and Supervision, the Tabernacle is a place for God’s presence and man’s service. Outer Court Frame of Tabernacle- Exodus 26:6 on twelve pillars – meant to bring tribes into presence. […]
Principles of Hermeneutics – Interpreting Scripture
“. . .find out the meaning of a statement for the author and for the first hearers or readers, thereupon to transmit that meaning to modern readers”. p. 5. Int. Bible Discover the original meaning; take into account changes in meanings which contemporary readers may attach to same words (e.g. suffer, gay, charity). Observe carefully […]
Speaking ABC’s
A is for Arranging your thoughts in this way: Write out the Scriptures, stories, statements and determine which ones go together, so there is a continuity in your speaking, and you are not going in different directions. B is for Bringing them into order: Put them in piles of “beginning, middle or end”. The beginning […]
Should Children Be Evangelized
This is not a complete study of the subject, but provides some fence posts to give biblical perspective to the nature of God and how He works, as we seek structure and protection in God’s world. “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” – Romans 6:23. We start there because we […]
Servant Leadership – Anonymous in Name, but Unanimous in Appreciation
Servant leadership is one of the threads running through the Wesleyan Church. It builds a cloak of the kindness of our Lord and wraps it around those persons who have need. I, personally, am pleased to acknowledge one such individual that exemplifies this. In keeping with the person’s desire that all glory goes to the […]
Do We See Ourselves
When we view the documentaries of mass murder, such as in the World War II concentration camps, do we see ourselves at all? How about abortion – the mass murder of innocent babies, which has been legally supported by our U.S. tax dollars? Can we see ourselves in that reflection, since we’ve been silent in […]
Personal Investigators
This portion is in the book of Acts, which the King James Version calls “The acts of the Apostles”. It is more correctly “The acts of the Holy Spirit” through the Apostles. The book opens with the spirit falling upon them. In the portion, Paul and Silas are sent out by night. This was to […]