Month: May 2017

The “Feast of Weeks” … or Shavuot as the Hebrews called it … was traditionally celebrated 50 days after Passover, commemorating God’s gift of the Law … Torah … to hundreds of thousands of Israelites encamped at the base of Mt. Sinai.  This gift signaled to a people on the run from Egyptian captivity that…

“Complacency kills”! … Those were the words spoken loudly in my living room four years ago during a men’s Bible study on the book of Revelation.  The brother–in–Christ who said them had served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Recon Marine on several dangerous covert missions fighting terrorism.  He went on to share that just…

This year, more than ever before, I’ve been meditating on the forty days after Jesus’ resurrection.  Focusing on what Jesus DID and what He SAID to His followers during this time period yields significant take–aways for how we follow Jesus twenty centuries later. In spite of Jesus’ repeated revelations of His resurrected body, His followers…

We are now just past the half–way point between Resurrection Sunday and Pentecost … only 14 more days until the Ascension of Jesus.  This 50–day period emerges as a focal point for disciple-building … “equipping & mobilizing men to follow Jesus.”  There’s much to learn from what Jesus said and what He did during this…

A close friend confided a few years back that he applied the “85/15 Rule of Learning” to studying the Bible.  I sat in stunned silence as he described how a person can learn “pretty much everything that needs to be learned” … or 85% … of any subject matter, by using only 15% of one’s…