Minutes With Messiah

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Special Editions

• Reengage (a song) (4/23)

Animals and Plants in the Bible

• Swine (4/22)
• Geese and Cranes (3/22)
• Haunted by Jackals (2/22)
• Beware Of (12/21)
• Sweet Figs (11/21)
• Mythical Beasts (6/21)
• A Ram in the Bush (song) (7/13)
• Fishers of Men (song) (7/09)
• Lamb of God (4/09)
• The Perfect Swarm (12/08)
• It's Only A Sparrow (9/07)
• Three, and Four (10/06)
• As the Deer (12/04)
• Unclean Pigs (12/03)
• Biblical Ravens (10/03)
• Of Bees and Honey (4/03)
• As A Roaring Lion (10/02)

Art: Lessons from the arts

• How Old Isaac? (11/16)
• Chiaroscuro (2/16)
• What Do You See? (6/13)
• In Concert (5/09)
• In His Image (4/09)
• Putting It In Perspective (12/06)
• Pentimento (6/03)

Baptism

• The Birth Process (1/22)
• It's A Miracle (12/21)
• Forward, Not Back (8/17)
• Qualifiers (8/16)
• Aliens (8/14)
• Happy Birthday In Christ (song) (7/13)
• Works Salvation (11/10)
• What Does It Matter? (9/08)
• My Perfect Church (7/08)
• Which One Doctrine? (9/07)
• Core Values (1/06)
• A Swing of the Pendulum (8/05)
• A Logic of Salvation (7/05)
• What Is Salvation? (11/04)
• Legal Baptism (7/04)
• Progressive Doctrines (7/04)
• A Damned, Good Man (4/03)
• Difficult Questions (6/02)
• Baptism: Some Questions (2/01)
• In Defense of Baptism (1/01)

Calvinism

• What's the Point? (6/18)
• Predestination (7/18)
• Total Depravity (8/18)
• Unconditional Election (9/18)
• Limited Atonement (10/18)
• Irresistible Grace (11/18)
• Perseverance of the Saints (12/18)
• Sovereignty and Prayer (1/19)

The Church

• Three Synagogues (9/22)
• Geese and Cranes (3/22)
• The Electronic Assembly (2/22)
• What Do You Do? (9/21)
• Suborning Perjury (2/21)
• The Big Lie (1/21)
• In Need of Therapy (12/19)
• A New Name (8/19)
• This Is Us (Song) (4/19)
• Time To Move? (9/17)
• Ohana (2/17)
• The Church as an Idol (1/17)
• Get More Out of Worship (8/16)
• Women In the Church (7/16)
• Spiritual Israel (11/15)
• Jesus Yes, Church No (9/15)
• Syncretism (7/15)
• Small Groups (6/15)
• Lost In Translation (3/15)
• Going to Church (1/14)
• Haters Gonna Hate (8/13)
• A Tradition of Assembly (8/12)
• A Tradition of Assembly (7/12)
• The Winds of Change (11/11)
• We Shall Assemble (10/11)
• Like Never Before (3/11)
• No Elders? (2/11)
• It's Not a Name (10/10)
• Better Than a Hallelujah (5/10)
• The Kingdom of Heaven (1/10)
• The Time Machine (10/09)
• Facebook Family (7/09)
• In Concert (5/09)
• Congregation of Christ (11/08)
• Simple Crickets (by Cheryll Russell) (10/08)
• My Perfect Church (7/08)
• A Throw-Away Society (9/07)
• The Spirit-Filled Church (8/07)
• Symbols to the Seven (6/07)
• Misconceived Religion (5/07)
• It Ain't Necessarily So (7/06)
• Cheer Him On (6/06)
• Peter Says (6/06)
• A New Name (4/06)
• Core Values (1/06)
• Which Is the Head? (6/05)
• They Ate Each Other Up (3/05)
• The Festival of Lights (12/04)
• Progressive Doctrines (7/04)
• The Household of God (11/03)
• The New Jerusalem (9/03)
• The Lord's Prayer, Part 2 (2/03)
• The People By the Lake (6/02)
• The Drive-Thru Church (2/02)
• Misunderstood Deacon (1/02)
• Withdrawing Fellowship by David Padfield (Reflections On Truth, March 2000)

Elders

• On Selecting Elders (4/16)
• He Don't Look Right (1/13)
• Faithful Children (9/11)
• No Elders? (2/11)
• Congregation of Christ (11/08)
• A One Gal Guy (6/08)
• Legalism In Eldership (1/08)
• What an Elder Is Not (9/04)

Evangelism

• Syncretism (7/15)
• Twitterpated (5/15)
• The Jonah Syndrome (2/14)
• Pavlova (12/12)
• The Harvest Feast (10/12)
• A Tradition of Invitation (9/12)
• A Difficult Conversation (3/12)
• We Care (A Song) (2/12)
• Biblical Illiteracy (1/11)
• Reproving the World (6/10)
• Spread the Word (11/09)
• A Driving Ministry (8/09)
• Fishers of Men (song) (7/09)
• Simple Crickets (by Cheryll Russell) (10/08)
• 'Round Midnight (1/08)
• Go Do Likewise (9/06)
• Let Your Light Shine (12/05)
• Religious Jargon (3/04)
• TOWP (6/01)
• He Found a Sheep (2/01)
• The Real Question (11/00)
• Musings (7/00)
• Tangled Web (4/00)
• Plant A Seed (11/99)

Guest Articles

• A Time for Rest (by Marcos Romer, Jr) (6/17)
• A Missing Piece (by Marcos Romero, Jr) (2/14)
• One Night in Jerusalem (By Marcos Romero Jr) (9/12)
• Flee As a Bird (By Marcos Romero Jr) (6/10)
• The Best Seats (By Marcos Romero Jr) (1/10)
• The Apostle Eeyore (by Marcos Romero Jr) (6/09)
• Simple Crickets (by Cheryll Russell) (10/08)
• Withdrawing Fellowship by David Padfield (Reflections On Truth, March 2000)

Homosexuality

• Be Careful How You Hate (5/15)
• Haters Gonna Hate (8/13)
• Judge or Judgemental? (11/12)
• Some of You (9/05)
• More Than Feelings (7/04)

Jesus

• Who Do You Say I Am? (a song) (4/22)
• The Temptation (7/21)
• It Goes Without Saying (5/21)
• All Flash, No Substance (8/20)
• The End is the Beginning (4/20)
• The Guest Room (12/19)
• Tell No Man (8/19)
• Was It Required? (9/18)
• Kill the Umpire (5/18)
• Born TO Die (1/18)
• Lucky Charms (1/18)
• The Jesus Meme (6/17)
• Not the One and Only (1/17)
• The Symbolic Jesus (1/16)
• The Wrong Jesus (10/15)
• Jesus Yes, Church No (9/15)
• Ye Have Heard,Part 2 (9/15)
• Ye Have Heard (8/15)
• The Jonah Type (7/15)
• The Kind Messiah (3/15)
• The Plan of Salvation (1/15)
• It Is Gospel (7/14)
• The Social Gospel (7/14)
• Nobody From Nowhere (a song) (4/13)
• Simeon and Anna (2/13)
• October Sky (a song) (11/12)
• Rock Walls (10/12)
• One Night in Jerusalem (9/12)
• The Iniquity of the Holy (9/12)
• He Will Be Called (8/11)
• Highly Prized (7/11)
• Jesus, You Rock! (4/11)
• What Day? What Year? (4/11)
• WWJD/WDJS/WDJD (1/11)
• In an Inferior Body (12/10)
• At Beit Chesed (11/10)
• The Metamorphosis (7/10)
• Reproving the World (6/10)
• At the Rest Stop (12/09)
• A Road Trip (7/09)
• Yard Sale (by Marcos Romero Jr) (4/09)
• Lamb of God (4/09)
• Childproof Your Life (2/09)
• A Faithful Saying (1/09)
• An Age-Old Argument (12/08)
• It's All Relative (9/08)
• I Love a Parade (7/08)
• A First for the Master (12/07)
• Remembering Water Gate (10/07)
• The King's Questions (7/07)
• Oh, What a Night (4/07)
• What's In a Name? (2/07)
• Why Did He Say That? (2/07)
• What a Sacrifice (2/06)
• Core Values (1/06)
• A New Day (10/05)
• The Trailblazer (7/05)
• A Delayed Visit (6/05)
• More Men With the Name of God (3/05)
• Jesus Is for Losers (1/05)
• The Festival of Lights (12/04)
• Into the Herd (11/04)
• Famous Last Words (5/04)
• Fed By the Teacher (3/04)
• Why Did He Move? (1/04)
• At the Feast (10/03)
• The Jesus Cloak (8/03)
• The Red Heifer (8/03)
• A Word From Our Sponsor (12/02)
• King of Righteousness (11/02)
• And It Was Winter (11/02)
• Peter's Last Letter (8/02)
• Such a Sacrifice (4/02)
• Christ Is Our Passover (3/02)
• Joseph-Mordechai-Jesus (2/02)
• A Dark and Stormy Night (11/01)
• The UFO (6/01)
• A Celebration Out of Time (10/00)
• The Next Step (7/00)
• My Yoke (4/00)
• Hosanna (2/00)
• Bought and Paid For (2/00)
• What if God Was One of Us? (12/99)
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Jewish Holidays

• That Sukkos (10/22) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• I Was There (3/21)
• What's Your Name? (2/21)
• Hanukkiah Or Dark Lantern (12/20) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Supplied Words (9/20)
• The End is the Beginning (4/20) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• They Are Related (10/19)
• Not Really Pilgrims (10/19)
• I Plead Self-Defense (3/19)
• Christmukkah (12/18) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Lasting Consequences (2/18)
• Bread, Apples, and Honey (9/17)
• Pull an All-Nighter (5/17)
• Afikomen (4/17) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Living in Obscurity (3/17)
• River of Lights (12/16) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Let's Have Fun (10/16)
• Witnesses Differ (6/16) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• In Preparation (4/16) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint included)
• Hadassah's Author (3/16)
• Is That a Hint? (4/15)
• In Defense of Light (12/14)
• Celebrating Camping (10/14)
• Joab's Shofar (9/14)
• An Extra Trip (6/14)
• Passover Speculations (4/14)
• An Unimportant Man (3/14)
• By the Light of the Moon (9/13)
• Cities of the Medes (2/13)
• Such Dedication (12/12)
• The Harvest Feast (10/12)
• Fifty Day Probate (5/12)(Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Why the Doorposts? (4/12)
• Victorious Secret Model (3/12)
• Low to High (10/11)
• Happy Birthday, World (9/11)
• The First of the Sabbath (6/11)
• What Day? What Year? (4/11)(Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• In Favor (3/11)(Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Defending the Faith (12/10)
• Shofar, So Good (9/10)
• Against Sin (9/10) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Why Wait? (9/10)
• Overnight (5/10) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Shehecheyanu (song) (3/10)
• A Beauty Pageant (2/10)
• Four Species (10/09)
• Awesome God (9/09)
• Poor Ruth (5/09)
• Lamb of God (4/09) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• The Die is Cast (3/09)
• Identity Theft (12/08) (Includes Christian viewpoints)
• Highs and Lows (10/08)
• Crown Him King (9/08)
• Which Came First (6/08)
• I'm So Confused (4/08) (Christian viewpoint)
• Who Is Ahasuerus? (3/08)
• In the Ghetto (12/07)
• Remembering Water Gate (10/07) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Three Short Weeks (7/07)
• Counting Up (5/07)
• Oh, What a Night (4/07) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• It's Hard to be Humble (3/07)
• Victory Is Ours (12/06)
• Hide Your Sins (10/06) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Wandering Abraham (10/06)
• The Alarm Clock (9/06)
• Peter Says (6/06) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Four Cups (4/06) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• A Study in Contrasts (3/06)
• Let Your Light Shine (12/05) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• The Binding of Isaac (10/05)
• A New Day (10/05) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• A Hole in Your Roof (10/05)
• The Begging Foreigner (6/05) (Christian viewpoint)
• Spring Cleaning (4/05)
• No Good Deed (3/05)
• The Festival of Lights (12/04) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• The Fall Feasts as a Unit (9/04) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• A Day of Study (5/04)
• As If We Were There (4/04) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Hide and Seek (3/04)
• A Celebration of Light (12/03) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• At the Feast (10/03) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Afflict Your Souls (10/03)
• A Birthday for Creation (9/03)
• The Traditions of the Elders (6/03) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• On Eating Matza (4/03) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Esther and Moses (3/03)
• And It Was Winter (11/02) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Two For One (9/02)
• The Last Shofar (9/02) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• The Joy of God's Word (9/02) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• When Is Pentecost? (5/02)
• Christ Is Our Passover (3/02) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Joseph-Mordechai-Jesus (2/02) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Shamash: The Servant (12/01)
• A Building of Trust (10/01)
• Sound the Trumpet (9/01)
• The Scapegoat (9/01)
• Ruth and the Law (5/01)
• Passover: No Leaven (4/01) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Purim: Why Not Bow? (3/01)
• A Feast of Dedication (12/00)
• A Celebration Out of Time (10/00) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Yom Kippur: The Day of Covering (10/00) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Succoth: The Feast of Booths (10/00)
• The New Middle of the Year (9/00)
• Shavuot—Pentecost (6/00) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)
• Pesach:Passover--Four Children (4/00)
• Purim: Haman (3/00)
• Hanukkah: The Feast of Dedication (12/99) (Messianic/Christian viewpoint)

Navy Days; Lessons from my time in the U.S. Military

• The Arresting Gear (12/20)
• Autopilot (6/19)
• In the Depths of the Sea (6/17)
• A Watch in the Night (10/16)
• Qualifiers (8/16)
• Jesus In Chicago (8/15)
• The Jonah Syndrome (2/14)
• Knee Mail (5/11)
• A Woman In Labor (2/10)
• Presenting the Colors (8/09)
• The List Maker (5/08)
• It's a Mystery (4/08)
• I Don't Butterfly (8/07)
• Who Needs Tradition? (6/07)
• Seasoned With Salt (4/07)
• In Their Own Way (3/07)
• Three, and Four (10/06)
• A New Name (4/06)
• They Could Be Free (11/15)
• Some of You (9/05)
• Give Me My Props (8/05)
• Wear the Gear (11/03)
• The Household of God (11/03)
• Never Wrestle With a Pig (7/03)
• Innie or Outie? (3/03)
• In Front of God's Bakery (2/02)
• Abraham: Two Comments (11/01)
• Climbing Mt. Fuji (8/01)
• The Real Sin of Abortion (11/00)
• Jumping the Chain (3/00)
• Head On A Swivel (1/00)

Obedience

• Not Thee But Me (9/21)
• Naaman's Reservation (5/18)
• 632111 (12/14)
• A Difficult Conversation (3/12)
• Committed (4/11)
• Giving Your Life (3/11)
• WWJD/WDJS/WDJD (1/11)
• A Relationship (7/10)
• Better Than a Hallelujah (5/10)
• Turn Aside (2/09)
• My Perfect Church (7/08)
• A Crick in the Neck (5/08)
• Dangerous Freedom (4/07)
• Hating the Prophet (3/07)
• Ouch! That Hurts (1/07)
• Dead Man Walking (8/06)
• I Am As Nothing (4/06)
• Will I Go to Hell? (1/06)
• The King's Foot (12/05)
• They Could Be Free (11/15)
• An Electric Fence (11/15)
• The Trailblazer (7/05)
• More Men With the Name of God (3/05)
• What Is Salvation? (11/04)
• The Last Time Change (10/04)
• Cascade^® For the Soul (8/04)
• Hear, Really Hear (1/04)
• My Way Or the Highway (8/03)
• All Sorts of Guides (7/03)
• A Damned, Good Man (4/03)
• Baalam Or His Ass (7/02)
• Roll Call (1/02)
• Kicking Cactus (7/01)
• Ruth and the Law (5/01)
• One Day Before Death(4/01)
• Not Heretofore (8/00)
• The Next Step (7/00)
• Listening to God (11/99)

The Papacy

• DCLXVI (2/06)
• The Traditions of the Elders (6/03)
• Congregational Autonomy (12/00)
• What Would Peter Say? (11/00)

Prayer

• Empty Prayer (5/19)
• Sovereignty and Prayer (1/19)
• A Look at Prayer (5/17)
• Thank You (8/13)
• Job's Song (Song) (7/12)
• A Tradition of Prayer (4/12)
• Knee Mail (5/11)
• Like Never Before (3/11)
• I Lift My Hands (2/11)
• New Years Revolutions (1/11)
• Where Does She Fit In? (3/10)
• Hannah's Prayer (3/09)
• A Cure for Insomnia (8/05)
• Give Me My Props (8/05)
• Cascade^® For the Soul (8/04)
• Esther and Moses (3/03)
• The Lord's Prayer, Part 3 (3/03)
• The Lord's Prayer, Part 2 (2/03)
• The Lord's Prayer, Part 1 (1/03)
• What To Do For Terrorists (5/02)

Premillenialism and Prophecy

• Gog and Magog (8/22)
• Misusing the Revelation (5/21)
• $ $ ¢ ½d (3/17)
• A Gap in Time (3/17)
• Consistently Inconsistent (2/17)
• The Day of the Lord (11/16)
• Sombra de Muerte (2/16)
• The Symbolic Jesus (1/16)
• Another Translation (5/15)
• The Meaning of Numbers (8/11)
• Revelation Comparison (8/10)
• What Does It Matter? (9/08)
• On God's Right Hand (11/07)
• Symbols to the Seven (6/07)
• DCLXVI (2/06)
• The Real Story (7/05)
• The 144,000 (10/04) (A question from my "What Does the Bible Say About..?" pages.)
• They Get It Backwards (2/04)
• A Thousand-Year Reign (11/03)
• Is This the Beginning? (10/01)
• On the Interpretation of Prophecy (3/01)
• Jesus' Genealogy (8/00)
• Replacement Theory (6/00)
• Whose Millennium Is It, Anyway? (1/00)

The Psalms

• Psalm 18 (8/22)
• Psalm 84 (9/21)
• A Short Praise (3/21)
• Psalm 69 (2/19)
• Good and Bad (12/10)
• In God's House (8/09)
• Number Twenty-Three (10/08)
• But It's So Long (6/08)
• In Their Own Way (3/07)
• Why Did He Say That? (2/07)
• When Judges Oppose God (12/05)
• The Voice of the Lord (5/05)
• This Is the Day (6/04)
• Unto the Hills (5/00)

The Sabbath and Sunday

• Commandments: 4 & 5 (4/13)
• A Tradition of Assembly (7/12)
• To Whom Given? (10/11)
• Twisting It (9/11)
• The First of the Sabbath (6/11)
• The Ten and Me (2/05)
• Tired and True (12/04)
• God is Still Resting (6/03)
• When Is Pentecost? (5/02)
• Why Sunday? (6/01)
• Is Sunday the Sabbath? (5/01)

Studies of Specific Scriptures

• Why Say That? (9/22)
• Psalm 18 (8/22)
• Are You Thirsty? (7/22)
• Mystery of Godliness (7/22)
• Other Gifts (6/22)
• Context is Key (2/22)
• Galatians, a Summary (1/22)
• Non-Psalms Psalms (10/21)
• Drifting Along (10/21)
• Wipe Away Tears (8/21)
• One Little Word (2/20)
• Alone In a Strange City (2/20)
• I Bear the Marks (2/20)
• I Saw an Emperor (2/19)
• The Most Important Day (2/19)
• Do or Do Not (11/19)
• Eight Times Alas (10/19)
• Jumping to Conclusions (8/19)
• Tell No Man (8/19)
• Beauty and Ashes (7/19)
• Thanks Be For These Three (3/19)
• Which Door? (1/19)
• Team Meeting (10/18)
• Be a Blacksmith (7/18)
• Are They the Same? (1/18)
• Friendly Vessels (11/17)
• What's Your Excuse? (10/17)
• Forward, Not Back (8/17)
• The True Root Stock (7/17)
• All Doesn't Always Mean All (7/17)
• In the Depths of the Sea (6/17)
• Not the One and Only (1/17)
• Self-Improvement (12/16)
• For Glory and For Beauty (10/16)
• Greater In You (5/16)
• Woe, Woe, Woe (+5) (3/16)
• Two Or Three (3/16)
• The Symbolic Jesus (1/16)
• Jacob or Angels? (12/15)
• Sinister Sword (10/15)
• In Context of Court (9/15)
• Jesus In Chicago (8/15)
• Ye Have Heard,Part 2 (9/15)
• Ye Have Heard (8/15)
• A Failure, Or Not (7/15)
• The Jonah Type (7/15)
• Another Translation (5/15)
• Is That a Hint? (4/15)
• 632111 (12/14)
• The Secret (11/14)
• Evaluating Our Gifts (10/14)
• A Higher Court (9/14)
• It Is Gospel (7/14)
• The Social Gospel (7/14)
• Conservation of Mass (5/14)
• A Preposition for You (4/14)
• The Jonah Syndrome (2/14)
• A Better Way (1/14)
• Beatitudes, Part 3 (12/13)
• Loading and Bearing (12/13)
• Beatitudes, Part 2 (11/13)
• Beatitudes, Part 1 (10/13)
• Twisted Scripture (10/13)
• Jacob's Blessing (song) (7/13)
• What Do You See? (6/13)
• Be Ye Holy (5/13)
• Working Together (3/13)
• The Iniquity of the Holy (9/12)
• Casting the First Stone (8/12)
• One Story, Two Views (8/12)
• John 11, by Eleazar (6/12)
• It Grieved Him (2/12)
• Twisting It (9/11)
• Character Counts (6/11)
• Hound Dog (6/11)
• Revelation Comparison (8/10)
• Reproving the World (6/10)
• Lead on Softly (6/10)
• We Were Like That? (4/10)
• Why Is It There? (2/10)
• The Kingdom of Heaven (1/10)
• In God's House (8/09)
• Hannah's Prayer (3/09)
• Eating Unworthily (3/09)
• A Faithful Saying (1/09)
• The Lord's Day (11/08)
• Number Twenty-Three (10/08)
• It's All Relative (9/08)
• Wisdom to the Wise (8/08)
• But It's So Long (6/08)
• The List Maker (5/08)
• It's a Mystery (4/08)
• Of, Not In (2/08)
• Legislating Morality (2/08)
• 'Round Midnight (1/08)
• Always the Poor (1/08)
• A First for the Master (12/07)
• I Hate Him (11/07)
• Who Wants Fame? (10/07)
• Symbols to the Seven (6/07)
• The Camp of Israel (5/07)
• It's Hard to be Humble (3/07)
• In Their Own Way (3/07)
• What Does it Really Say? (3/07)
• Why Did He Say That? (2/07)
• The Sentence In Ephesians (1/07)
• It's Impossible (11/06)
• Samson, Comedian (11/06)
• Three, and Four (10/06)
• Peter Says (6/06)
• God's Good Gifts (6/06)
• Will Work for Fruit (5/06)
• Mowing the Grass (5/06)
• I Am As Nothing (4/06)
• Four Cups (4/06)
• When Will I Be Blessed? (3/06)
• DCLXVI (2/06)
• A More Excellent Way (2/06)
• Core Values (1/06)
• When Judges Oppose God (12/05)
• Some of You (9/05)
• We Have Fellowship (9/05)
• The Voice of the Lord (5/05)
• More Men With the Name of God (3/05)
• Jethro's Wisdom (2/05)
• What of the Dead (1/05)
• Men With a Name of God (10/04)
• This Is the Day (6/04)
• Coming and Going (6/04)
• As Grasshoppers (5/04)
• Famous Last Words (5/04)
• And You Shall Know (4/04)
• Hide and Seek (3/04)
• A Husbandman For God (2/04)
• Jude's Threes (1/04)
• A Thousand-Year Reign (11/03)
• Wear the Gear (11/03)
• The New Jerusalem (9/03)
• The Red Heifer (8/03)
• Our Schoolmaster (5/03)
• Virgins In the Church (12/02)
• In Our Image (12/02)
• King of Righteousness (11/02)
• The Joy of God's Word (9/02)
• Check the Context (8/02)
• How To Question God (5/02)
• God On His Horse (4/02)
• God Had a Bad Day (8/01)
• Hand Writing (2/01)
• The Just Shall Live (9/00)
• To Be (Im)Precise (6/00)

Service

• Saved To Serve (a song) (4/18)
• Wait Upon the Lord (7/16)
• What's In Your Closet (12/14)
• Be a H.E.R.O. (6/14)
• Make a Difference Monday (song) (7/13)
• Schmacting (7/11)
• First Bank of Heaven (2/11)
• Lead on Softly (6/10)
• Better Than a Hallelujah (5/10)
• I Am Second (song) (4/10)
• Where Does She Fit In? (3/10)
• The Man on the Corner (1/10)
• Ten Percent (12/09)
• A Driving Ministry (8/09)
• Loyalty Oath (8/08)
• Me and You (5/08)
• Walking Away from God (3/08)
• Three Short Weeks (7/07)
• Ouch! That Hurts (1/07)
• Go Do Likewise (9/06)
• Mowing the Grass (5/06)
• Men With a Name of God (10/04)
• Room At the Inn (8/04)
• The Promise (2/03)
• Not In "It" (11/02)
• Dangerous Witness (10/02)
• Serving Ive (10/02)
• Athletes For Christ (6/02)
• Such a Sacrifice (4/02)
• The Decease We Accomplish (4/02)
• Misunderstood Deacon (1/02)
• Shamash: The Servant (12/01)
• Born A Slave (12/01)
• And Your Camels Also (12/99)

Songs

• Reengage (a song) (4/23)
• Song: At My Mother's Knee (6/22)
• Who Do You Say That I Am? (4/22)
• Yo Te Quiero (11/21)
• unstuck (4/20)
• This Is Us (4/19)
• They Might Be Giants (4/19)
• Saved To Serve (4/18)
• Homecoming (4/17)
• Anomaly (4/16)
• Power In Purity (4/15)
• Passion (5/14)
• In His Steps (2/14)
• Happy Birthday In Christ (7/13)
• Make a Difference Monday (7/13)
• A Ram in the Bush (7/13)
• Jacob's Blessing (7/13)
• Nobody From Nowhere (4/13)
• October Sky (11/12)
• Job's Song (7/12)
• Where Amazing Happens (4/12)
• We Care (2/12)
• The Only Tomorrow (8/11)
• Jesus, You Rock! (4/11)
• Committed (4/11)
• I Lift My Hands (2/11)
• I Am Second (4/10)
• Shehecheyanu (3/10)
• My Grace Is Enough (11/09)
• Fishers of Men (7/09)
• In His Image (4/09)
• Peter Says (6/06)
• Hosanna (2/00)

Sports

• Coach God (7/20)
• Bible Baseball (9/19)
• Kill the Umpire (5/18)
• World Champion Cubs (1/17)
• Run the Race (6/16)
• An Olympic Controversy (7/12)
• We're Number One (4/10)
• The Sports Fan (3/10)
• Baseball Is Life (4/08)
• A Wonderful Drug (8/07)
• Cheer Him On (6/06)
• In God's Hall (5/06)
• Batting Not So Average (5/05)
• Wear the Gear (11/03)
• Athletes For Christ (6/02)

Stories retold

• In the Second City (10/22)
• Church Interrupted (7/22)
• A Riot in Ephesus (10/20)
• In Lystra (12/19)
• My Time In Philippi (2/18)
• Near Damascus (11/16)

The Teacher: Stories from the Gospels (And Acts)

• The Prophet and The Teacher (2/21)
• Dear Doctor Luke (9/17)
• Forgiving Debt (5/16)
• The Calling (8/15)
• A Funeral Procession (9/14)
• Kangaroo Court (9/13)
• Simeon and Anna (2/13)
• John 11, by Eleazar (6/12)
• Highly Prized (7/11)
• At Beit Chesed (11/10)
• The Metamorphosis (7/10)
• At the Rest Stop (12/09)
• A Road Trip (7/09)
• I Love a Parade (7/08)
• A First for the Master (12/07)
• Oh, What a Night (4/07)
• A New Day (10/05)
• A Delayed Visit (6/05)
• Into the Herd (11/04)
• Fed By the Teacher (3/04)
• At the Feast (10/03)
• And It Was Winter (11/02)
• Peter's Last Letter (8/02)
• A Dark and Stormy Night (11/01)
• The UFO (6/01)
• My Yoke (4/00)

Traditions

• Ye Have Heard,Part 2 (9/15)
• Ye Have Heard (8/15)
• A Tradition of Tradition (12/12)
• A Tradition of the Book (11/12)
• A Tradition of Education (10/12)
• A Tradition of Invitation (9/12)
• A Tradition of Legalism (8/12)
• A Tradition of Assembly (7/12)
• A Tradition of Holidays (6/12)
• A Tradition of Preaching (5/12)
• A Tradition of Prayer (4/12)
• A Tradition of Singing (3/12)
• A Tradition of Building (2/12)
• A Tradition of Giving (1/12)

Trust

• Hide and Watch (6/20)
• Autopilot (6/19)
• They Might Be Giants (Song) (4/19)
• Let's Have Fun (10/16)
• In the Shadows (2/16)
• A New Peter (12/15)
• The Chord (6/15)
• Hide and Seek (11/14)
• By the Numbers (8/14)
• Wings (4/14)
• In His Steps (song) (2/14)
• Logistics (11/13)
• What Is It? (8/13)
• A Ram in the Bush (song) (7/13)
• Job's Song (Song) (7/12)
• And Seize Our Donkeys (12/11)
• Jesus, You Rock! (4/11)
• Flee As a Bird (By Marcos Romero Jr) (6/10)
• We're Number One (4/10)
• My Grace Is Enough (song) (11/09)
• Childproof Your Life (2/09)
• Our Daily Bread (2/09)
• The Check's In the Mail (1/09)
• Enough Is Enough (11/08)
• Number Twenty-Three (10/08)
• Legislating Morality (2/08)
• 'Round Midnight (1/08)
• Limiting God (6/07)
• In Their Own Way (3/07)
• Me Deo es Su Deo (2/07)
• God Is In Control? (7/06)
• The King's Foot (12/05)
• Being God-Fearing (11/05)
• A Hole in Your Roof (10/05)
• A Cure for Insomnia (8/05)
• Don't Sweat It (5/05)
• As the Deer (12/04)
• In the Arroyo (9/04)
• I Am Not Dust (8/04)
• A Carnivorous Land (2/04)
• On the Road (1/03)
• Generations of Faith (8/02)
• Fear of Falling (3/02)
• A Dark and Stormy Night (11/01)
• A Building of Trust (10/01)
• Shadows in the Evening (7/01)
• Have Faith In Faith (3/01)
• The Tunnel (1/01)
• Unto the Hills (5/00)
• The Worry Stone (3/00)
• Bought and Paid For (2/00)
• Even Then (1/00)
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Worry

• Sombra de Muerte (2/16)
• Q-tips^® (5/13)
• And Seize Our Donkeys (12/11)
• Fear of Falling (3/02)
• A Dark and Stormy Night (11/01)
• The Worry Stone (3/00)
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Miscellaneous Articles

• The End of the Road (10/22)
• Life-Changing (9/22)
• The Wrong Way (8/22)
• Transitive Property (6/22)
• The Dreaded Grammar (5/22)
• Divorce (5/22)
• Who Is Demas? (4/22)
• Laughing At God (3/22)
• ¿Y Porque No? (3/22)
• A Disclaimer (1/22)
• Construction Time (12/21)
• If This Were Living Only (11/21)
• Scriptural, Un, or Non (10/21)
• Childproof (9/21)
• Why Did They Survive? (8/21)
• It's A Parabola (8/21)
• Buying Priesthood (7/21)
• Not Who I Was (7/21)
• Benaiah ben Jehoiada (6/21)
• Purification or Redemption (6/21)
• The Pharaoh of the Exodus (5/21)
• It Goes Without Saying (5/21)
• Guardian Angels (4/21)
• Forty Days (4/21)
• There Was a History (4/21)
• Nothing Better (3/21)
• Baal, Asherah, Molech (1/21)
• It's Your Birthday (1/21)
• Suitable For Each Other (12/20)
• One Serving (11/20)
• Go Your Way (11/20)
• Following Procedure (11/20)
• Paying Debts (10/20)
• Many Miriams (10/20)
• Which Calendar to Use (9/20)
• Solomon's Portico (9/20)
• Always the Poor (8/20)
• Salvation (8/20)
• Bruxism (7/20)
• Prince of This World (7/20)
• Perambulation (6/20)
• Social Distancing (6/20)
• Dry Grape Vine (5/20)
• You've Got a Friend (5/20)
• In a Relationship (5/20)
• Public Lord's Supper (4/20)
• Was Paul Married? (4/20)
• The Rent Is Due (3/20)
• Eunuchs (3/20)
• A Terrarium (3/20)
• The Lord's Supper (11/19)
• We Don't Talk About That (11/19)
• Credo: I Believe (9/19)
• The Rest of the Story (9/19)
• Fake News (7/19)
• What Kind of Cleaver? (7/19)
• God Forbid (6/19)
• Misleading Meme (6/19)
• Of What? (5/19)
• How Do You Like Your Steak? (5/19)
• Red Letter Edition (4/19)
• Mr. Wizard's Advice (3/19)
• Singularly Plural (2/19)
• Tidbits (2/19)
• Good Persecution (2/19)
• Not to be Healthy (1/19)
• Antisemitism (12/18)
• Hooray for Milton (11/18)
• Died of Laughter (11/18)
• Mysterious Dave (10/18)
• A Christian Nation (8/18)
• The Slippery Slope (8/18)
• I Protest (7/18)
• Songs That Speak (6/18)
• Falling On Faces (6/18)
• Describing Lot (5/18)
• No Sleep Deprivation Here (4/18)
• Believe It; Receive It (4/18)
• The Sticking-Point (3/18)
• In What Order? (3/18)
• Chicken or Egg? (3/18)
• How Many Years? (2/18)
• How To Kill Your Preacher(12/17)
• The Breakup (12/17)
• Pay Off Your Debt (12/17)
• A Proclamation (11/17)
• Javert/Paul (11/17)
• Sleeping in the Temple (10/17)
• Wesley, Martin, and John (10/17)
• Witness Security Program (8/17)
• Love; Hate (8/17)
• Ashes, Ashes (7/17)
• Hate Casts Out Love (5/17)
• Concert or Worship? (4/17)
• On the High Wire (2/17)
• Undocumented Aliens (12/16)
• Sewing, No Machine (9/16)
• Sin In Heaven (9/16)
• Answer the Survey (9/16)
• Mothers of Kings (8/16)
• Life Blood (7/16)
• Property Law (6/16)
• Heart Failure (5/16)
• Saying the Wrong Thing (1/16)
• A Cure for Addiction (1/16)
• No Future in Standup (12/15)
• Unthink God (11/15)
• Female Servants (11/15)
• Prodigal (10/15)
• How Much More (6/15)
• Being Consistent (4/15)
• Good Germs (3/15)
• The River of Language (2/15)
• A Bicycle Commute (2/15)
• The Broad Way (2/15)
• What Innkeeper? (1/15)
• Count the Cost (1/15)
• What's In Your Closet (12/14)
• Re: Re (11/14)
• A Tale of Two Cities (8/14)
• Clean Up Your Act (6/14)
• Miriam of Magdala (5/14)
• Wings (4/14)
• A Social Disease (3/14)
• Trinity (3/14)
• Coexist (1/14)
• Slippery Slope (12/13)
• A Roller Coaster (11/13)
• Of Dairy and Meat (10/13)
• Why Judgement? (9/13)
• It's Not Fair (6/13)
• Our Pets (6/13)
• Commandments: 4 & 5 (5/13)
• YOLO (4/13)
• Commandments: 4 & 5 (4/13)
• After Death (3/13)
• Commandments: 1-3 (3/13)
• "Unmerited" Favor? (2/13)
• Word (1/13)
• Zombie Apocalypse (1/13)
• Judge or Judgemental? (11/12)
• Rock Walls (10/12)
• Book, Chapter, Verse (6/12)
• Swordsmithing (5/12)
• Time and Eternity (1/12)
• Into the Unknown (1/12)
• Teach the Children Well (7/11)
• Seven Times Seventy (12/11)
• The Guinea Worm (5/11)
• Rock Bottom (5/11)
• First Bank of Heaven (2/11)
• New Years Revolutions (1/11)
• Biblical Illiteracy (1/11)
• Pop Me/We (11/10)
• Is Religion a Bad Word? (10/10)
• I Am a Role Model (10/10)
• The Sword of the Spirit (7/10)
• Find What You're Looking For (5/10)
• A Woman In Labor (2/10)
• The Best Seats (By Marcos Romero Jr) (1/10)
• The Evil Bunny (12/09)
• Resistance Training (11/09)
• A Perfect Ten (10/09)
• A Nail In His Holy Place (9/09)
• A Mystery (9/09)
• God Gives (6/09)
• The Devil, You Say (6/09)
• The Apostle Eeyore (by Marcos Romero Jr) (6/09)
• Undergoing the Change (5/09)
• Mad Cow Disease (1/09)
• Time, or Forever (8/08)
• One In Five (7/08)
• Watching Worship (3/08)
• A Parking Ticket (2/08)
• Remember to Recycle (12/07)
• Church Words (11/07)
• Who Wants Fame? (10/07)
• Which One Doctrine? (9/07)
• The King's Questions (7/07)
• PMES (7/07)
• Limiting God (6/07)
• Who Needs Tradition? (6/07)
• Seasoned With Salt (4/07)
• Dangerous Freedom (4/07)
• What's In a Name? (2/07)
• I Hate Packing (1/07)
• The Silence That Shouts (12/06)
• In What Guise? (11/06)
• Eat the Word (9/06)
• TTTAWDD (8/06)
• Musings 2 (8/06)
• Spilled Milk (7/06)
• It Ain't Necessarily So (7/06)
• Physician, Heal Thyself (3/06)
• Some of You (9/05)
• Once Saved, One Sin (9/05)
• Twelve Men Good and True (4/05)
• New Snow (2/05)
• Time, or Not (1/05)
• A House in La Jolla (11/04)
• Whose Fault Is It? (6/04)
• What Is Your Fox? (4/04)
• Religious Jargon (3/04)
• Aspiring to the Least (12/03)
• E-Gossip (9/03)
• Never Wrestle With a Pig (7/03)
• Collect On Your Judgment (7/03)
• Three Wells (5/03)
• Too Many Congregations (5/03)
• Innie or Outie? (3/03)
• God, the Collector (2/03)
• ISGOD4U (1/03)
• There's No Afterlife (7/02)
• Zoë's Bible (7/02)
• Celebrate (3/02)
• In Front of God's Bakery (2/02)
• Get Off the Phone (1/02)
• Citizen (Candy) Cane (12/01)
• Abraham: Two Comments (11/01)
• Why Antioch? (11/01)
• Upslide Down (10/01)
• God or Fire (9/01)
• My Tailor is God (8/01)
• The Big I (7/01)
• God Is Not Ashamed (5/01)
• Looking Back (1/01)
• Do We Celebrate? (12/00)
• The Real Sin of Abortion (11/00)
• Thank You (10/00)
• Reading the Labels (9/00)
• Tomorrow, Tomorrow (8/00)
• Angels in Disguise (7/00)
• Musings (7/00)
• The State of Mind (2/00)
• Introducing This Bulletin (11/99)
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