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Sorry that I’ve been MIA from the blog lately. Right after Easter, we headed off to Florida for a nice beach vacation — the three of us and my sister, Karen. (Vacation pictures and videos coming soon!) When we returned

The book of James was written (most likely) by Jesus’ half-brother James during (most likely) Paul’s first missionary journey. James explains how works are involved in the faith process by telling the first Christians that their faith should be expressed

This is such a magnificent section of Scripture since it describes the armor and weapons God has given us to fight our enemy, Satan. You may find it hard to believe that we’re in the midst of a spiritual battle.

This section of Ephesians is all about walking the Christian walk. This walk is purposeful. It imitates God. Paul calls all Christians to “put off” several worldly habits and “put on” several godly traits. The one that hit me most

In chapters 2 and 3, Paul continues to explain the mystery of the church, as he did in chapter 1. He describes how God selected the Jews to be His chosen people. But when they rejected Him as a nation,

The book of Ephesians is one of Paul’s prison epistles. An epistle is a letter. And a prison epistle simply means that Paul wrote this letter while he was in prison. The first recipients of this letter were the Ephesians at

Grace is God’s unmerited favor on us. He gives us what we don’t deserve, and He doesn’t give us what we do deserve. In this last part of II Corinthians, Paul focuses on God’s grace in several situations. The one area that

I could say a lot of things about the content in the first seven chapters of II Corinthians. But there’s one part that really stood out to me this week. It’s the section about Christians being jars of clay (II

In just two weeks, we’ve covered the entire book of I Corinthians! This book is full of so many important truths and doctrines that it deserves a more thorough study. But we have many other letters of Paul to read,

This week we venture into I Corinthians. Paul wrote this letter to the church in Corinth to tell them to start applying the truths they knew. They were living like the world instead of acting differently because of their new-found faith