Roman Biography Important? The attacks against the Bible are endless, sometimes nasty, often ignorant. Let’s take for a moment what the gospels are, in terms of literature. The gospels are biography, written in Roman style. How did Rome write biographies? Different than how we do it. Take for example a biography of any great U.S. President– -Lincoln, Kennedy, Reagan, to name a few. But let’s start with Obama, the first black President of the United States– -a great accomplishment by any standard. A biography on Obama’s life would start at early childhood, without a doubt his birth, and then walk…
Based on answered prayer, or the lack thereof, safe to say few know anything about prayer. To some prayer is a defined ritual or forced behavior, for others it is self help psychology, a self-conversation with self for the purpose of whatever. Prayer is intimate contact with God. To move beyond enjoying God toward participating with God is hard work, no way around it. Sometimes the hard work of prayer is lengthy, and at other times not. But the intensity needed for answered prayer is hard work, and rarely understood. Listen to this verse: Elijah was a man with a…
Job is the oldest book in the Bible. Before King David, and Moses, quite possibly closer to Adam than any of us realize, a man named Job encountered God. As a new believer, I saw a book in the bible named “Job,” and seriously wondered if the book had to do with employment. Thankfully it did not, something more significant was at play. I love to read Job in a layout without verses, that way my eyes can plow through the text unhindered. Sometimes I gather with others and read the whole text out loud in one shot– -that is…