Bible Insights with Wayne Conrad

Send us Fan Mail Jesus eighth day after his birth by Mary was highly significant. Two great events transpired as recorded by Luke 2:21 And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. More precisely Eight days after his birth, the child was circumcised and named Yeshua . This was the name the angel had give...

Send us Fan Mail We are familiar with the birth narratives of Jesus the son of Mary from Nazareth but what is the core meaning of this event? Who is this child and why is his birth so important. Two Christmas carols are quoted in part that ask the question but the quote giving the answer is after the tag sign off. Bible Insights with  Wayne Conrad Contact: 8441 Hunnicut Rd Dallas, Texas 75228 emai...

Send us Fan Mail It is important who your mother is. Matthew does something unusual in his genealogy of Jesus. He mentions women- 4 before Mary the mother of Jesus. This message looks at Ruth and the wife of Uriah. There are a number of lessons that can be drawn from the stories of these women ancestors of Jesus and the sons born of them. Consider the 4 women: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and the wife of Ur...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever traced your family ancestry? In many societies of the world and especially in the Bible times among the Hebrews (Jews) it made a big difference who your father was. As we open the New Testament and the gospel narrative of Matthew we are presented with Jesus ancestry through the legal line of Joseph. Matthew's  genealogy is very unique and constructed to highligh...

Send us Fan Mail The Bible helps us understand the nature of faith in the lives of God's people by giving us the examples of faith in Hebrews 11. This chapter is often called the Roll Call of Faith. Here are listed some of God's examples of people who had faith in him. Hebrews 11:1 is not a definition of faith but a description of how faith operates. The author then demonstrates by vario...

Send us Fan Mail When your hear the word advent what comes to mind. Probably you think of the birth of Jesus, Christmas as we call the holiday. This however is not what came to mind in the early churches. Advent came with the promise of Jesus to return to the earth after his ascension to the Father. The New Testament writings refer to Christ return, his advent or second coming hundreds of times! T...

Send us Fan Mail Paul writes a deep insight in Romans 8:2-4.    For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.  3 For God has done what the law , weakened by the flesh, could not do . By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulf...

Send us Fan Mail On the day of his resurrection from the dead Jesus twice revealed himself to his disciples at a meal. He was made known to them in the breaking of the bread. (Luke 24:31f and Luke 24:43). Perhaps this is the reason the Lord's Supper or Communion is referred to in Acts as "the breaking of the bread" (Acts 2:42; Acts 20:7). Jesus connected his spiritual presence to th...

Send us Fan Mail Psalm 73 is a testimony of a true believer whose faith is put on trial. He believes that God is good to Israel but when he sees the prosperity and arrogance of the wicked  he gives way to envy. His thoughts become a vexation of spirit. "Surely I keep myself pure for nothing." He is tempted to share his doubts with others but God held him back. In retrospect he said, &quo...

Send us Fan Mail If you were ask for a verse in the Bible that expresses the gospel many would quote John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. Now this is a glorious and wonderful statement of truth but it does not contain the whole of the gospel. The sentence requires context which Jesus supp...

Send us Fan Mail Paul in his great letter to the Romans expounds the righteousness of God in saving his people. Paul quotes this prophet in his statement of the theme of his letter to the Romans.  For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.   For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus tells a story that illustrates how a person can be declared justified, in right standing before God. It is found in Like 18:9-14. Two very different people with very different prayers- one an outstanding person zealous for God who does all the right things and avoids the obvious bad. He prays basically to himself about himself with a thank you to God for his help. He regards...

Send us Fan Mail Sin creates a problem for people because by it we are condemned before God and damned. The Law reveals this but it can not rescue us. Why? Because we are lawbreakers and continue to transgress. Our sin also creates a problem for God who desires to receive us into his fellowship and has chosen us in Christ. How can he righteously forgive us and then treat us as sinless and righteou...

Send us Fan Mail  Psalm 8 looks back to the original creation of humanity in Adam. It relates the language of God's command to Adam found in Genesis 1 and 2. Man was a glorious creature made in the image of the Creator God. He was a marvel in a perfect world that God had made for his habitation. But something happened, and Adam and Eve disobeyed God.  In the Fall man was cursed and cast out o...

Send us Fan Mail Psalm 8 is a great psalm that has often inspired worship of his name and wonderment that such a glorious Being would care for people. The psalmist is overwhelmed in his thoughts of the glorious majesty of God and the creatureliness of mankind. Such a glorious God thinks about people and reveals himself to them. God's glory is seen in the universe and it is displayed in the ea...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus the Messiah is the fulfillment of the tabernacle of Israel and later the temple in Jerusalem. Jesus is the perfect fulfillment of all that the tabernacled foreshadowed. The whole system of Hebrew worship that God instituted by Moses is an object lesson of the person and work of the Lord Jesus. John wrote, And the Word became flesh and took up residence among us, and we saw h...

Send us Fan Mail The Psalms have always played a central role in the life God's people, in both Israel and in the Church. They function in many ways: prayer, instruction, confession, and affirmation. They are songs expressing the range of human emotions in relation to God and others. We should read the Psalms, pray them, sing them, and connect them to the story line of the Bible. Psalm 91 is...

Send us Fan Mail John introduced early that his purpose in writing his good news of Messiah Jesus announcement was that people would believe on the Son.  As many as received him he gave the right to be children of God. But what does this mean? How does Jesus explain what it means to receive him. John 1 and 3 give us the answer. Bible Insights with  Wayne Conrad Contact: 8441 Hunnicut Rd Dallas, Te...

Send us Fan Mail John's introduction to his witness of the Messiah begins with a prologue that spells out his main idea. He first identifies the Word as preexistent in eternal fellowship with God as God, face to face. Then he moves in verse fourteen to declare the great truth of the incarnation. The Word became flesh and pitched his tent for a few years among us in order to redeem us. This re...

Send us Fan Mail Who is Jesus the Christ? John's gospel was written to answer this question. His entire thesis is summarized in the first 18 verses known as his prologue. In these verse he sets forth the relation of Jesus to God, to deity, to time, to creation and to mankind. In the first three verses he declares that Jesus is the logos or Word of God and is Eternal.   Bible Insights with  Wa...

Send us Fan Mail Who is Jesus Christ? Whose Son is he? This is question to which we must give an answer.  What did Jesus say about himself and his relationship to the Father? Did Jesus ever claim to be God?  If so exactly how did Jesus claim deity? John's gospel gives us the answer to these questions. Bible Insights with  Wayne Conrad Contact: 8441 Hunnicut Rd Dallas, Texas 75228 email: Att....

Send us Fan Mail Jesus explained his own person, his mission, and the meaning of his coming, his death, burial and resurrection and his return to the Father in the words of the prophets of old. He referred and quoted or alluded to the writings of Moses in the Law, of David in the Psalms and the prophets. This is the place where and he commissions us to do the same. We should the gospel in the earl...

Send us Fan Mail Hymns have been associated with the Lord' Supper or Holy Communion since the night in which Jesus instituted this act of worship. We read in Mark 14:26 And when they had sung a hymn they went out... Mostly likely they sang from the later part of Psalm 118. A psalm associated with the Passover.  In keeping with the Biblical purpose of singing in the worship of God in Christ Je...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus great Commission to his disciples recorded in Matthew 28:16-20 comes in the context of the advancing of the kingdom of God. Our continuing mission as demonstrated in the preaching of the early church by the apostles and others is to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom. This good news is that the King of God's kingdom has arrived in the person and the redemptive acts of J...

Send us Fan Mail We are told, actually commanded, to engage in singing in the worship of God. Singing must be in conformity to God's Word and should contain a lot of the Scripture truth. Psalms exhort us to praise God with singing and music (Psalm 149:1-2; Psalm 95:1-2). The New Testament commands expand the role of singing to engagement with our fellow worshippers. Colossians 3:16 Let the wo...