Reviewing a recap of reading from a couple of years ago…. Lot was being urged out of Sodom by the two “visitors” (Angels) ahead of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorah. But instead of going to the mountains as directed he asked for a close by town...
From 10/20/2016 Imagine my surprise: “Rev. Byrd, I’m calling from Gov. Scott’s office……” Shared with Titus 2 board members and instructors! The faithfulness you all have shown has helped make Titus 2 something to be proud of...
In working with a friend in preparation for co-teaching in a small group on the book of Esther starting later this month, I was introduced to her prior engagement with a book by Maxie Dunnam on holiness, She showed his list and descriptions of “holy, catholic,...
John 14:9-21 “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in...
October 14, 2020 On filthy rags…. A bit more in-depth than a typical homily on “filthy rags”…… A theology that expects salvation to arise out of works, as is promoted by some social justice warrior evangelicals, will not convert...
My husband, Bill, is a kind and generous and morally grounded individual. He has expressed annoyance at times about the way in which David is held up as an example for Christians, given his many failings. And being called “a man after God’s own heart” is particularly...
