Category: Ancient Scrolls

  • Ideals are Peaceful, History is Violent

    If you haven’t seen the movie FURY yet, chances are this article will spoil a couple of things. I am posting this the same day it comes out, so I imagine that if you read it today, you’ll have something spoiled. I’ll do my best to not ruin anything, but there’s a chance. And with…

  • The Hot and the Cold (@churchplanting conference, Part 1) #exponential

    I flew in to sunny Orlando, Florida today to attend the Exponential East 2016 Church Planting Conference. The point of the conference according the marketing materials is “How to Become Level 5 Churches”. “Five” is the level you reach after you church was really terrible, decided to evangelize, of course then becoming a church that…

  • A Response to: Should Adult Sibling Incest Be a Crime?

    A Response to: Should Adult Sibling Incest Be a Crime?

    Originally titled, “Sex Your Sister”, but then I realized that nobody wants to click that. If you want to read the article that lead me to write about this, click here. I’m left speechless mainly after reading the results of the poll at the end of the the  above article.  Here are the results with…

  • Disenfranchised Disciples

    Disenfranchised Disciples

      At this point many of his disciples turned away and deserted him. Then Jesus turned to the Twelve and asked, “Are you also going to leave?” Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life. We believe, and we know you are the Holy One of…

  • Walk on Water

    About three o’clock in the morning Jesus came toward them, walking on the water. When the disciples saw him walking on the water, they were terrified. In their fear, they cried out, “It’s a ghost!” But Jesus spoke to them at once. “Don’t be afraid,” he said. “Take courage. I am here!” Then Peter called…

  • Jairus’ Daughter

    While He was still speaking, someone *came from the house of the synagogue official, saying, “Your daughter has died; do not trouble the Teacher anymore.” But when Jesus heard this, He answered him, “Do not be afraid any longer; only believe, and she will be made well.” When He came to the house, He did…

  • Who Touched Me?

    And as Jesus returned, the people welcomed Him, for they had all been waiting for Him. And there came a man named Jairus, and he was an official of the synagogue; and he fell at Jesus’ feet, and began to implore Him to come to his house; for he had an only daughter, about twelve…

  • Helplessness [Peter’s Bravado] by Jesse Kahler

    Transcript: The title of today’s message is helpless, that’s why we need him, we need God, because really we are very helpless. The unique thing we are going to wrestle with today is that the more and more aware we become of our helplessness, and the better we live that out that is actually how…

  • The New Disciples Are Sent Out

    Jesus summoned His twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every kind of disease and every kind of sickness. Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; and James the son of Zebedee, and…

  • Healing Peter’s Mother-in-law and more

    When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him. When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word…