Bible Insights with Wayne Conrad

Send us Fan Mail Peter's first letter is addressed to the Christian assemblies in Asia Minor who are undergoing trials because of their faith in Jesus Christ. Why do trials come? What is there connection to Jesus and his own suffering as the Messiah for the salvation of God's elect? What is the purpose of such trials, such sufferings?   Bible Insights with  Wayne Conrad Contact: 8441 Hun...

Send us Fan Mail Where should we turn when times of loss, of sorrow and grief or times of doubt and confusion and fear confront us? My good friend once share with me how the words of the preacher at his grandmother's funeral impacted him. These are the words that were spoken, "In times like these we need to turn to the Bible." They have also impacted me. In times like these I invite...

Send us Fan Mail Who hasn't seen a rainbow and marveled at its beauty? God put the rainbow in the clouds after the worldwide flood that destroyed all the earth except for Noah and his family and the animals that he took on board at God's direction. The story of the bow in the clouds as God's covenant sign is found in Genesis 9. The rainbow reminds us that God always keeps his promis...

Send us Fan Mail Numbers 21 records a tragic event in the camp of the Hebrews on their way out of Egypt and bondage to Canaan. When the food and water were scarce they spoke sinfully against God and Moses and despised the provide manna food. As a result of their rebellion God send poisonous vipers into the camp and hundreds began to die. Then the hurried to Moses asking God to have mercy. Moses pr...

Send us Fan Mail I want to tell you this story about the first humans in a perfect Garden who met up with a talking snake. The events  in the Garden of Eden in Genesis Chapter 3 had profound effects upon the human race. Satan, the great Deceiver, managed to convince Eve to eat of the  fruit of the tree from which God had forbidden them to eat. Adam followed her lead instead of God's command,...

Send us Fan Mail I was happy when they said to me, Let's go to house of the Lord! Why? Because I am meeting the living God in an assembly of his people. Such a weekly meeting is to identify myself as a believer in the true God and to fellowship with other believers through the offerings of joint hearing of God's word, singing and prayers. Cooperate worship of God through and in Jesus Chr...

Send us Fan Mail Peter's first letter is addressed to a group of several local churches in part of the area we  now know as Turkey. He wants each church to understand that they are a special group of people loved and chosen by God to belong to Jesus Christ.  Although each person comes to God by personal faith, they do not come isolated from other believers.  1 Peter 2:9  describes each commun...

Send us Fan Mail The Apostle Peter in his first letter writes, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow. 1 Peter 2:2  Beginning with the writings of Moses given in the first 5 books of the Hebrew Scriptures that we commonly call the Old Testament, Joshua, Moses successor, was told, "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day an...

Send us Fan Mail After King Uzziah of Judah died Isaiah records his encounter with God in his glory. Perhaps he had gone to the temple with David's Psalm 27 on his mind and even on his lips. Psalm 27:1-2,4 Yahweh is my light and my salvation.      Whom shall I fear?  Yahweh is the strength of my life.      Of whom shall I be afraid? One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after:  ...

Send us Fan Mail The Bible has much to say about the glory of God. The psalmist prayed and longed for the glory of God. In fact we pray for it in the Lord's Model prayer for his disciples. Psalm 104:31-34 NIV May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works— he who looks at the earth, and it trembles, who touches the mountains, and they smoke. I will sing to the LOR...

Send us Fan Mail The Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary to becoming a Christian, a believer in the Lord Jesus the Christ, and He is indispensable to the Christian life. Jesus, early in ministry told a respected teacher and leader in Judea/Israel, "You must be born again,"  born from above by the sovereign Spirit (John 3). The Holy Spirit is the Life-giver. He brings spiritually dead peo...

Send us Fan Mail The Christian confession of God is totally unique. It is the result of historical revelation of God's actions in the life of the Hebrew people and the life, death, burial and resurrection and ascension. of Jesus Christ plus the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the believers on the Feast of Pentecost in the year of Jesus' ascension. The uniqueness and glory of the Christia...

Send us Fan Mail Loving God is the first and the greatest commandment both in the Torah and on the lips of Jesus: 4 Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. 5 You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. Deut.. 6:4f And he [Jesus] answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your stren...

Send us Fan Mail People who come to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ have God's seal placed on them.  God's seal  guarantees that we will take possession of the inheritance of ultimate and full salvation. What is this seal and how does it function? Is it an external or internal mark? Bible Insights with  Wayne Conrad Contact: 8441 Hunnicut Rd Dallas, Texas 75228 email: Att. Bible Insights...

Send us Fan Mail Forty days after Jesus of Nazareth was raised from the dead he physically ascended into heaven. Luke records the event for us in Luke 24:49 and in Acts 1:9-11. Jesus started speaking of ascension, that is he return to the Father in heaven in the first few weeks of his ministry. He stressed it in the hours he shared with the disciple in the upper room just prior to the events unfol...

Send us Fan Mail Most Christians are familiar with what is often term the Great Commission recorded in  Matthew 28. But Jesus gives direct orders to his disciples several times between the day of his rising from the dead and his physical ascension into heaven. In fact his direct orders are given to the gathered Apostles and other believers with them in the room where they were gathered behind lock...

Send us Fan Mail Almost weekly I get an email notice of photos of me activities and people I was with on that day. It stirs memories of them and events. Peter was the designated leader of the apostolic band. In the gospel narratives we can see snapshots of him on certain days and what he did. Each photo has a title that details something about him. Seeing and hearing him may reveal your own life....

Send us Fan Mail All of us have trials in life.  All of us have periods or times of grief brought about by those trials. These are common to all humanity, but the remarks of the Apostle Peter in first Peter chapter one are addressed primarily to Christians who are going through the trials of life in their faith journey.  As pilgrims through this world to the world that is to come, we are faced wit...

Send us Fan Mail Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ we who have faith in him have been born again to a living hope! What is Christian hope? What exactly is this living hope? Christians have an expectation of a wonderful future when Jesus Christ returns to earth. We have a living hope that can not disappoint because it is founded on the atoning work of Jesus, his victorious resurrection and a...

Send us Fan Mail Most Christians through the centuries beginning after the resurrection of Jesus and his appearances have gathered for corporate worship on the First Day (Sunday) of the week.  Yet the Mosaic covenant in the commandments specify the Seventh Day as the Sabbath.   What is explanation and how do Sabbath and First Day Christian Worship relate? Bible Insights with  Wayne Conrad Contact:...

Send us Fan Mail One week after Jesus arose from the he appeared again to them where the apostles had gathered. Thomas who had been absent the evening of Jesus resurrection when he had appeared was with them this time. He had expressed skepticism when the Ten had told him they had seen the Lord. This time Thomas is with them! Jesus suddenly appears and said to him: “Put your finger here, and see m...

Send us Fan Mail On the day he arose from the dead Jesus of Nazareth the Messiah appear on three different occasions. His second appearance was to the two disciples who were walking back from from Jerusalem to the village of Emmaus. He join them but their eyes were prevented from recognizing them so he could show them his death and resurrection in the revelation God had given in the Law, the Psalm...

Send us Fan Mail We do not know Jesus' first words as a baby but we do know the first words he spoke and to whom he spoke them on the morning of his resurrection! Bible Insights with  Wayne Conrad Contact: 8441 Hunnicut Rd Dallas, Texas 75228 email: Att. Bible Insights Wayne Conrad gsccdallas@gmail.com (Good Shepherd Church) Donation   https://gsccdallas.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC...

Send us Fan Mail A reading of the Passion(Intense Suffering and Death) Christ Jesus on behalf of sinful people according to the Apostle John, chapter 18-19 from The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. A few comments and concluding prayer. Bible Insights with  Wayne Conrad Contact: 8441 Hunnicut Rd Dallas, Texas 75228 email: Att. Bible Insights Wayne Conrad gsccda...

Send us Fan Mail Christ has been raised. Hallelujah! Christ is risen and alive. Now at the Father's right hand and he shall come again. A reading of a section of a composite account of the day of Jesus Christ resurrection from the dead and his appearance with his disciples. Based of Jesus Christ ministry, sufferings, death, burial and resurrection a reading of the Easter Morning Liturgy of  t...