Hospitality

Read Matthew 25:34-46 … While growing up, the basic model of hospitality that I saw typically followed some patterns. First, there was always something brewing around some fellowship connected with church: a youth fellowship at someone’s house or at the building, one of the various banquets that occur during the year, or a class fellowship …

Look Forward, Be Ready

Read 2 Peter 3:3-18 … Eschatology … big word to describe the study or delving into the END TIMES (ominous music plays). Well, maybe not all that ominous, more like slightly threatening with undertones of curiosity and expectation. Who wouldn’t like to know exactly what will happen in the end time, the last day, or …

Wisdom, Justice, and Peace

Read Isaiah 10:33-11:9 … Not everything one reads is worth repeating, or even paying attention to. As Christians, whatever one reads should be subject to an examination by the Scriptures, whether it is true, ethical, and spiritually correct. Recently while reading a work by Richard Bauckham this thought jumped off the page, “Isaiah’s picture of …