Fourth Sunday of Advent Reflection- Sunday, December 22, 2019 CBByrd Just pondering…… Tossing, turning, and experiencing a stomach ache last night, I found myself awake and uncomfortable. But something else had discomfited me, too….. some wandering...
Going Deep with Christ through Bible Study CBB 1-31-19 One of the first times I really had Scripture leap off the page and impress me with a deeper meaning was with the verses in Matthew 7:7 -8: (See also, Luke 11:9-10) “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you...
Bible Study on the Book of James: “Straight Talk” (CBByrd November 2014) In the introduction to James in the Wesley Study Bible it is noted that Martin Luther held the book of James in low regard, calling it “an epistle of straw”. John Wesley, on the other hand,...
Dr. Sandra Richter, in her “Epic of Eden” book and study, offers a metaphorical image that sets the stage for studying the Old Testament as a whole. She used the image of a someone falling off of a mountaintop, landing at the bottom of the mountain, broken and unable...
Pondering “fire”…… I was at a restaurant with a couple of Titus 2 ladies at lunch and a woman with her back to me at the next table had a tee-shirt that said, “Be what God created you to be and set the world on fire.” It reminded me...
Like the unamed “rich young ruler” in the Gospels, anything one is unwilling to surrender for the sake of following Christ becomes the source and basis of one’s identity…….. and is her true god. It may be a relationship, material security, vanity, sexuality,...
