The Lord’s Prayer- Part Two

I remember the Lord’s Prayer being one of the first prayers my parents taught me to remember. Yet to keep this prayer in perspective, it is one in which He taught His disciples to pray. In Matthew, the prayer is found in Matthew 6:9-13. The perspective part, however, begins in Matthew 5:1-2 as from that [...]

Barney Fife Just Found Out About Juanita Bynum

“Andy, Andy, did you hear about Juanita? Someone on the street said some guy beat her up! Where’s that one bullet of mine? I’ll show him he can’t get away with something like that so I’m going to nip this in the bud! Nobody messes around with my Juanita! Besides, if something happened to her [...]

3 John on Preeminence in the Church

Even though this post is about 3 John, I would like to open with a text from James and then one from 1 Peter to kind of set the stage.
“Where do wars and fights come from among you?” James 4:1. “Shepherd the flock of God, not as being lords over those entusted to you, but [...]

Creflo, The “Shady” Dollar

According to Wikipedia, Creflo received a BS in education from West Georgia College in 1984. Although he claims a masters and doctorate in counseling on his web site, Wikipedia could not find any evidence of where or when he earned them. An article in the New York Times about his opening of a church in [...]

Contrast of Duo Groan’s

“We groan earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation, which is from heaven. We who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that morality may be swallowed up by life” 2 Corinthians 5:2,4.“O what a beautiful groaning, As we look unto that day, I’ve [...]