Psalm 34:1-8 There are many right ways to look at and evaluate the people in the Bible. But there is one simple and profound way in which people are portrayed, one key way in which their hearts and lives are measured. You see, people can be divided into two camps: The grateful and the thankless. […]
Revelation 19:1-10 We live in challenging and troubling times. It is a comfort and encouragement for believers to set our minds and hearts on the wonderful future being prepared for us by our Savior We’ve seen where the Church will be during the 70th week of Daniel 9 (the last seven years prior to the […]
Living in light of the Rapture, the Blessed Hope What comes after the Rapture? Pt 1 – the Bema 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 The doctrine of the rapture of the church, the fact of the translation from these lowly mortal bodies and from death, to glorified bodies and relocation upward into heaven of the body of […]
2 Timothy 2:19-22, 3:1-12 We’re continuing to focus on our life in Christ in view of the rapture, our Blessed Hope. Paul’s final letter to Timothy lays out a problem that was a threat to the church in Ephesus where Paul had poured out so much time and energy, and where Timothy was now ministering […]
Titus 2:11-3:8 How should our soon translation affect our living? The blessed hope of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ’s appearing in glory, at the Rapture, also motivates the sensitive Christian to honor God by his or her behavior now. The Greek verb prosdechomenoi (“looking for”) is in the present tense indicating that this […]
Message delivered at Hartstone Bible Camp In this passage the Paul shares the burning hope and eager expectation that motivates him to a life, decisions and attitude that cut off the siren calls of his flesh and instead keeps the focus of his life now aimed at pleasing the Lord. Titus 2:11-14 and the Rapture, […]
How Jesus understood Scripture, and we should too Note: A point of clarification: Around minute 6 pastor Eric speaks of fallen human nature. In this he is speaking only of the nature of man in his unregenerate, unredeemed state, not after a person is regenerate/saved/redeemed. In other words, he is not teaching one-naturism in the […]
Daniel 9:1-19 We have moved forward in Daniel’s life. We’re now in the 66th year of his exile from Judah, so he’s in his 80’s now. What Daniel did and saw in this chapter dates from 539 B.C., the first year of Darius the Mede’s (Gobryus’) rule as king over the Persian province of Babylon […]
Daniel 2 Do you ever wonder: Where am I in history? From the perspective of the sovereign on His throne in heaven, where do we in the 21st century fit into God’s plan of the ages? Is there a plan of the ages, or are we just blindly stumbling forward through human time unending? In […]
Isaiah 44:28-45:5, Ezra 1:1-2 With all the changes in our society, the confusion and clashes in our government and among nations, one is inclined to wonder, “Just who is in charge of all this?” God’s people have historically taken comfort in the answer to that question, found in the pages of the Bible: God is […]