Apprentice 2 Jesus

Bible Study

  • The “upside down” Kingdom

    Luke takes a different approach to the “Beatitudes” from Matthew. I continue to meditate on those differences. Read more

  • Jesus knows what holds us back

    In Mark 10:17-22 we have the story of the rich young man coming to Jesus and asking what he needs to do to inherit eternal life. He finds out that it is more than checking off a pretty good list. Read more

  • Understand this…

    But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—5 having a form… Read more

  • The agendas that ruin us

    Here is the message from Jesus: The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel. (Mark 1:15, ESV) I like the Common English Bible on this one: Now is the time! Here comes God’s kingdom! Change your hearts and lives, and trust this good news! Read more

  • Tossing tables and disrupting worship

    Matthew 21:12-22 is a passage I’m very familiar with in my reading… and know so little about in context of the story. For too long I have looked at each part without regard to the whole. Read more

  • Are we stopping short of the full work of God in us?

    Working my way through Matthew, I found this note in Matthew 4, when Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness: Read more

  • Reading Holy Scripture

    If you will profit by reading Scripture, read humbly, simply, and faithfully, and never desire to gain by your reading the name of the learned. Ask gladly and heed humbly the saying of saints, and do not disdain the parables of the ancient Fathers, for they were not spoken without great cause. — Thomas A’… Read more

  • Notes from the wilderness

    I am working my way through Ezekiel as the Lord stirs in my heart more about “Living in Babylon.” This was a sermon series I did in 2016, but I left a lot unexplored. The Lord is bringing this back around to me and in this season as I form extended thoughts on this subject,… Read more

  • When the river of God flows

    I have been reading through Ezekiel asking the Lord to restore my sense of wonder and imagination.  Read more

  • Mind-blowing realities of the Kingdom of God

    I have finished my little project in Acts and am now making my way through Ephesians. This small letter has played such a massive role in my life in the past 20 plus years, it is a joy to walk through these passages again. I simply can’t grasp the majesty and wonder of what Paul… Read more