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Spankings. Time outs. Groundings. It’s time for some discipline. No more TV. No more video games. No more cell phone. We parents are quite creative with our forms of discipline. Discipline is an important part of a child’s development. Without it, most kids would grow up spoiled or out of control. We all probably knowContinue reading “God’s Graceful Discipline”

Let’s play a little word association. You know how this game goes. I say a word and you say the first word that comes to your mind. For example, if I said “apple,” you might say “sauce” or “pie.” If I said “cotton,” you might say “candy” or “shirt.”  Or how about “Hitler?” You probablyContinue reading “God Is Good”

If you hadn’t yet read my article from last week, I would suggest that you stop now and go back and read it. It’s a lead up to what’s in this article. In my own journey of progressive revelation, I went from being a little kid to where it seemed that God revealed himself asContinue reading “My Journey of Progressive Revelation (Part 2)”

About three weeks ago, I introduced a concept known as progressive revelation. I developed it even more the following week. For the purpose of review, progressive revelation is the idea that God revealed things about himself gradually over time and that his fullest revelation is found only in Jesus Christ. That means that those whoContinue reading “My Journey of Progressive Revelation (Part 1)”

So it all comes down to this. The journey we started in April to discover who God is has revealed a lot about Him. Not that we have learned everything there is to know about God, for that would take an eternity. But what we have learned has been quite amazing. Hopefully, we’ve had someContinue reading “Who Is God? (Conclusion)”

Picture God having this conversation with himself. “Look at the huge mess down there on earth. These humans have really fouled things up. It’s so ugly, I can’t stand it anymore. But what shall I do? I know. I’ll get even with King Saul. He has really ticked me off with his blatant disobedience. IContinue reading “Who Is God? (Progressive Revelation II)”

Given the nature of the topic and how much there is to say about it, I’ve decided to dispense with the usual introductory comments and go straight into it. As promised in last week’s article, let’s talk about progressive revelation. I believe this may be the most important article in this entire series. Understanding progressiveContinue reading “Who Is God? (Progressive Revelation I)”

When I was growing up, I remember our family liked to play games. And I don’t mean just sports. I’m talking about family games too, like Monopoly, Twister, Life, Candy Land, Battleship, Uno, and other classics. And when I got in high school, Risk became the ultimate favorite for me and my friends. Nothing likeContinue reading “Who Is God? (Col. Mustard with the Lead Pipe?)”

The suspected killer has been caught. Now he faces the grilling of his life. Across the table from him in the interrogation room is Detective Lenny Briscoe, a veteran cop of the NYPD, and he is not in a good mood. With his voice rising with every syllable he utters, he berates the suspect relentlesslyContinue reading “Who Is God? (Good Cop, Bad Cop, and the Key)”

“When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites,Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites,seven nations larger and stronger than you—and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroyContinue reading “Who Is God? (Different Views)”