• Romans 15:1-13 | He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother

    April 19, 2023 /

    Intro The fifteenth chapter continues on the theme of Christian ethics dealing with how to handle the grey areas that we so commonly disagree on. The summation of what Paul has already written is found in the first verse of…

  • Jude 1:14-15 | Education from Enoch… now Enoch

    April 16, 2023 /

    Intro In Genesis 4:17-22 Moses writes from the verbal history of humanity when he tells the story of the pre-flood civilization. A society that was not like what we are told today; Neanderthals who had no speech, education, or a…

  • Romans 14:13-23 | Let Your Brother’s Conscience Be Your Guide

    April 12, 2023 /

    Intro Paul continues on dealing with Christian ethics and how we behave towards our fellow believers in those “grey areas”. He doesn’t want to leave the impression that mature believers are to just leave alone their weaker brothers, leaving them…

  • 1 Corinthians 15:5-11 | We Have Seen Him

    April 9, 2023 /

    Intro In our modern jurisprudence we are most familiar with “eyewitness” testimony but there are many other types of evidence called “circumstantial”. The question is how can the jury determine if the evidence being presented is the truth? The answer…

  • Jude 1:12-13 | Five Pictures From Nature

    April 2, 2023 /

    Intro We started examining Jude’s words inverses 12-13 into the realm of poetry in the use of five word-pictures that directly and indirectly revealed three things:   We also took time looking at these five word-pictures generally as we discovered three…

  • Romans 14:1-12 | About Diets and Days

    March 29, 2023 /

    Intro Having dealt with Christian Civics Paul now takes up yet another touchy subject, Christian Ethics. The dictionary describes “Ethics” as a philosophy that deals with what is good and bad, right, and wrong, moral duty and obligation. Often the…

  • Romans 13:8-14 | Living on the Edge

    March 22, 2023 /

    Intro We come now to the 2nd and 3rd parts of this chapter as Paul has been giving us a civics lesson on how to be godly citizens to the “powers that be”. I’m amazed at how the one phrase…

  • Romans 13:1-7 | Lessons in Civics

    March 15, 2023 /

    Intro In the 12th chapter Paul dealt with the obligations of love; those within the body of Christ and those outside the body of Christ. Now Paul points out that we have obligations to love outside these personal relationships to…