(Continued from Part 1, of course)
With the first half of His sentence in reply, Jesus completely voids the erroneous teaching that birth defects are the direct cause of the parents’ sin or the in utero behavior of the child himself, i.e., that bad things only happen to bad people: “Neither this man nor his parents […]

This past Sunday, I was slated to deliver a message at a local jail, during the Sunday evening chapel service. Unfortunately, an incident occurred at the jail on Saturday, causing the facility to be on “lock-down” for three days. My next opportunity to speak there is more than a month a way, so I thought […]

Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. - John 14:1
With a casual read of these words of Jesus, it may seem to the reader that Jesus is saying that He is not God. That is, that God is someone to believe in, and that He is someone […]

So I said: “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The Lord of hosts.” - Isaiah 6:5
The closer that I get to God; the more aware I am […]

If a man has committed a sin deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the Lord your God is giving […]