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When Cain finds himself offended, God presents to him a choice: Do well and be accepted, or don´t with sin lying at the door, and it will rule you.  When confronting the offense which comes from comparison, there a choice that leads to life and choices that lead to death.  Everyone has to make that choice and many times daily.  Cain chose sin, and the first true victim dies at his h...

Setting up the context for the first instance of violence recorded in the Bible and history.  Violence, finds its roots in comparison.  Comparison finds its roots in inequality.  God is good, He is just, and He is loving, but there is one thing He is not: equal.  Nor does He make any promise nor pretense to that effect.  The result? When a person does not find themselves b...

Why talk about violence? I give *some* of my experiences with violence and the questions that it raised as to what motivates violence within us.  Sadly, there is VERY LITTLE information available about this topic.  This series will examine violence, the attackers and the victims, the motivation, possible solutions and of course all the Word has to tell us.   Give it a listen and fol...

Scripture is clear that if we believe in Jesus, we shall be saved from it. What is it?  It's the Day of the Lord.  When is it coming? What will it be like?  Who is it for?     220-04-27

Last in the series of the Basics: How will the Judgement play out?  Is it one event, two or three? What will we be judged on?  Who will be judged?  What is actually important for now in the lens of the coming judgement?   2020-04-20

Jesus has defeated the world! Last segment on the world for now. How  Jesus defeats the world on the cross, how God so loved the world and why  friendship with the world means being an enemy of God. 2020-01-17

How does Jesus confront the world?  What actions does he take in His ministry to bring forth the Kingdom of God? 2020-01-13

Jesus faces the temptations of the devil and his response begins to show us how to respond to the powers and make God Lord. 2020-01-09

Looking at the perspective of Walter Wink, C. Peter Wagner and Greg Boyd on the powers and principalities in the world. 2020-01-06

Continuing on the theme of the world.  A bit more on the order of things looking at the powers powers and principalities. 2020-01-02

Exploring the world. First up, God's order in the creation. 2019-12-19

Here at the end of the basics and the end of the age: Eternal judgement finishes out the set of the fundamentals of the faith.  First, a look at what it means to judge, starting at the beginning, middle and end of time.   2020-04-13

What happens once we die, but before the resurrection?  What options does the Bible lay out? Does it even matter?  Today, I'm exploring the ideas of soul sleep and going to heaven while waiting for the resurrection from the dead at Christ's return.  2020-04-06

Resurrection means a risen body, not a just a soul.   In this first part, it's time to face the reality of human existence, dualism, death and Christ's resurrection from the dead and a very brief look at the general timeline of what is to come at as we look towards eternity.   2020/03/30

The Basics: The Laying on of Hand The mature action of the Christian life. Laying of hands for empowering by the Holy Spirit, for healing and for blessing into ministry.  Perhaps this is the basic way of living out the Christian life.   2020-03-23 

Baptism: A dip, a washing, a proclamation, a transformation.  A quick overview of biblical cases of baptisms, how various churches implement it and how it fits into our faith.   2020-03-16

Faith in God...it means faith in God, not in anything of the world: people, money, security or even that which makes sense.   2020-03-09

Looking at what exactly are dead works and why we need to turn from them to God.  This gets tricky...what happens when the things of God begin to take the place of the giver Himself? 2020/03/02

Do you know what it means to repent? What have you repented from?  We are looking at what the word(s) repent mean and why it is STILL fundamental to following Christ.  2020/02/24

Starting a new series on the basics from Hebrews 6.  This is just the introduction to the six or seven topics that are identified as the fundamentals of faith in Hebrews 6.