The Most Profitable Study

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: The concept of God as a Father did not originate with Jesus, Even so, any effort to study his life and teachings will reveal that he exalted and elevated the idea while advancing a more meaningful revelation of God and by proclaiming that every … Read more

Wings Are a Little Thin

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: While binge watching a TV series called Numbers, I was enjoying the sibling rivalry of the two brothers that are the main characters. One is a mathematics professor and the other is a kind of swashbuckling FBI agent. As the swashbuckler enters the professor’s … Read more

Liberty T/F

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: I remember watching cartoons during my early childhood. One character in particular made a lasting impression on me due to the confused look he had on his face as an angel was whispering in one ear and the devil was whispering in the other. … Read more

A Ministry of Mercy

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: Our mind endowing, Spirit bestowing and personality bequeathing God is always aware of our limitations as well as our potential. We are judged fairly in light of our origin, nature and purpose. And, because mercy is inherent in Divine justice, we can always be … Read more

What the . . .

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: Ask any number of Christians why Jesus came to earth and you are likely to receive an equal number of different answers. While one camp will advance the statement “To die for our sins,” others will quote the Gospel according to John and the … Read more

Parable of the Sower – The Harvest

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: To the earliest hunters and gatherers, the struggle for survival was often a lonely experience. The mind was occupied with fetishes, charms, and magic in an effort to better the odds in the attempt to insure good luck over bad luck. The agrarian societies … Read more

Parable of the Sower – The Soil

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word choreographed an assembly of amino acids into an exquisite array of specific proteins. Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit … Read more

Parable of the Sower – The Thicket

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: In his Parable of the Sower Jesus said: “Other seed fell among the thorns, and as the thorns grew up it was choked so that it yielded no grain.” In another related teaching the Master said: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man … Read more

Parable of the Sower – The Rocks

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: There is abundant evidence that human beings were working stone over two and a half million years ago. Early humans were making Acheulean axes and other large cutting tools over one and a half million years ago. Two hundred thousand years ago middle stone … Read more

Parable of the Sower – The Wayside

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: There is a ruggedized form of ministry that closely follows in the footsteps of Jesus. It operates in a way that is both informed by, and stems from, the Parable of the Sower. It serves to soften any compacted soil and it labors to … Read more