“Ask, Seek, Knock” is a concept the Lord had me explore deeply years ago…. Asking implies curiosity or a desire for information, but not necessarily a deep desire to know. Seeking suggests that one has a good idea of what it is he is looking for,...
Dr. Sandra Richter’s anointed teaching, including The Epic of Eden, appears to have many people seeing the continuity of biblical themes from Genesis to Revelation more clearly. In a recent group conversation about seeing God’s plan in Scripture, I made a...
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...
