Paul says the Gospel is the Power of God in Us. It Allows Us to Live Life Better by Accident than We Ever Could on Purpose. — A Short Gospel Thought We have a mixture of theologies today: the Old Testament and the New Testament. Jesus says not to mix them but people tend to anyway. They just can’t seem to comprehend that God would abandon his law for the gospel. …

Paul says the Gospel is the Power of God in Us. It Allows Us to Live Life Better by Accident than We Ever Could on Purpose. — Snapshot Thought 37 The Old Testament Law is bad news to anyone who tries to live it because everyone failed (Acts 15:10). Thus Paul says we must be ‘dead to the law’ if we want to ‘live unto God’ (Galatians 2:19). Law is called ‘the ministry of condemnation’ — meaning GUILT.

Facts Can Escape Us If We Listen to Fantasy and Factions that Have a Bias of One People Over Another — To begin with, Israelites, Jews, and Hebrews are usually synonymous, even if some authorities tend to differ to a slight degree. They are the people who form the nation of Israel today, and who trace back to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Old Testament book of Genesis. I will…

In My Early Life, I Knew Nothing Spiritual — Raised by Very Liberal Parents Who Offered Me Cigarettes, Booze, Drugs, Sex, Etc. — In high school and college, I even formed a singing group and we called ourselves “The Satan Trio.” We weren’t making a spiritual statement with this name. We didn’t know Satan from Jesus. It was just a catchy name to us — taken from a trio we considered to be…

Job is a Complex Book, Often Raising More Questions than Providing Answers. Thus it is a Book About Us Living in Faith — Let’s Begin at the End, Seeing Faith and Our Resolve The bottom line of the Book of Job is that we can’t understand all that happens in life, or even why it happens. But regardless of what happens in our lives, God expects our worship and our love. It has been said: “What happens to us in life, as important…

Yes, I’ve written 2–3 political articles in the past, but not very often. As a lawyer, I have a lot of opinions but I try to keep them to myself mostly. But sometimes I just can’t keep quiet — like now. Some U.S. media is accusing Israel of “WAR CRIMES”…

They Were the Way Jesus Taught and Shared the Gospel His Father Sent Him to Bring to Bless and Revitalize Our Lives. — This writing shows how each of the parables speaks to the gospel doctrine of Jesus he said we must believe and live. His Parables were the way he proclaimed these gospel doctrinal truths to us (Mark 4:2). This focuses on the Revelation of Christ’s Gospel for Us to Respond to…

Paul says the Gospel is the Power of God in Us. It Allows Us to Live Life Better by Accident than We Ever Could on Purpose. — The very first thing God did in Genesis chapter 1 was to BLESS US. The very last thing Jesus did in Luke 24, as he was ascending to his Father in heaven was to BLESS US. Acts 3 says God sent his special Messenger, Jesus, with his special Message, the…

The Most Frequent Thing I Hear Taught, and Thus Also Believed is that the Holy Spirit Convicts Christians of Sin. Is this True? — I sometimes wonder if it’s not blaspheming the Holy Spirit to say he does convict us believers of our sins. The only passage in the New Gospel Gospel taught by many preachers is found in John 16:8–10. In the New International Version, Jesus says: When he (the Holy Spirit) comes…