May 21
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tonyh added a text contribution Witnessing the difference!For those of you who may be following me and my contributions, let me explain what I'm doing. I find it difficult, okay not possible to follow the reading plan on this site, although I have tried and I do love it. If your time allows, please do it. The reason i can't is because of the reading I have to do for teaching one of my lifegroups. What you have before you is my notes that i actually teach to a group of hungry disciples and i find it extremely rewarding. I thought i would try p… Read more » -
Acts Introduction: Have you ever read a book and got to the end of it and really felt like there should be more to this story, maybe a sequel? Isn’t this how you feel at the end of the Gospel stories sometimes? You get to the end of Luke, for example and you want to say, tell me what happens next? Most biographies do tell us about the man, who he was, how he lived, how he died, and then they just stop, but the gospels don’t that. We don’t stop with a dead hero. He dies, but it ends with Him b… Read more »
Mar 20
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tonyh added a text contribution Acts 1:1-11Very exciting to know Luke's mind about the work of Jesus. The gospels began the work and now Acts continues to record His ongoing work. The story has no ending, He still is witnessing to the world about who He is. He brings you and me into His work, actually speaks of it as though it is Him doing it! That says allot about you and me. Does our message today resemble theirs? They preached Jesus is risen! He's alive and with us right now, not a dead savior a living one! They preached… Read more »
Feb 12
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tonyh added a text contribution leaven of Pharisees and HerodMost thoughts that I feel comfortable with come from the context. The Pharisees and Herod were guys who kept asking for signs from Jesus to prove who He was. The truth is they never came to faith because of signs and Jesus did some pretty amazing ones to prove who He is. Miracles do not create faith, build faith; it's wrong to assume they do. Many saw unexplainable things and yet did not come to faith. Jesus warned His own disciples not to be like the Pharisees and Herod, who were always as… Read more »
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tonyh added a text contribution Disrespect of parentsAt one time the culture was that children respected their parents for life and of course, things have changed. Nowadays our kids can take us to court for disciplining them, if they just don't agree with our decision on something. Our culture does not breed respect for parents and our society is showing the affects of this. It has been producing this disrespect for some time now, so the fact that some parents are so messed up it's easy for us to say, how can anybody respect them, let al… Read more »
Jan 7
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tonyh added a text contribution He saw the valley and it was goodJust a flashback to the garden. The woman saw the fruit and it was good and she desired it. How many times do certain things look so good, but lead to more trouble than if you chose to follow God totally, even if it doesn't seem the best choice at the time? A promise waits for Abram, lot is headed for trouble and doesn't know it yet, but it seemed he was getting the better end of the deal. Read more »
Jan 3
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Oh to know what walking with God in this obvious special way means and for the power to do so! It stands out in the midst of a list of so and so's who lived so long and died. One thing one is impressed with is, things have changed from the beginning, where all was good and no talk of death, or futile living, tough times, etc., we now live so long and die! Major change, all because everything has changed from the beginning, from what was intended. Maybe we were all intended to live as Enoch… Read more »
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I have read it in other places, but it seems we still do not really get it. When God created man, He created them male and female and called them both man. The question comes to me, would it not have made a huge impact on us all, if in our deep minds, our background that influences how we view the world, if we all believed God created man both male and female? I mean, He did not create male the man and woman something else, but both male and female are man. Would this change the way we look at e… Read more »
Aug 27
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tonyh added a text contribution Cross-shaped relationshipsThis letter is vital to the church today, because as it was then the church has always had relationship troubles among it's people. The key verse to understanding why he writes is in vs. 2 of chapter 4. Two people having a falling out with other which is affecting the whole church. Well how do fix church squabbles? Paul spends the majority of this writing reminding them of the cross of Jesus and using the cross as a focus to fix all relationship problems. If we would only develop the mind o… Read more »
Apr 3
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tonyh added a text contribution focus on the letterAll your comments are good, but having said that, there is a big message in this text. There are those who make religious laws for others to follow, all fot he purpose of making themselves look good, or look like the elite leaders that you must follow. Those who want to insist on laws for their and your salvation, do not know what faith is. Salavation comes only in and through Christ's death and not through the keeping of laws. Read more »
Nov 22
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tonyh added a text contribution Total Set UpThe law stated that both parties; the man and woman caught in adultery would be taken before the people and if found guilty, both would be stoned. Where's the man? They are not interested in this law, they are focussed on accusing Jesus of some wrong doing. Jesus turns the tables by pointing out there sin, maybe even being specific about the sin, have you committed this sin, if you haven't then you can act? Read more »