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Are you like me in finding it difficult to love people the way God does? Why do you think that is more of chore than a delight? Could it be that today we have missed what it means to love like God? Would you like to how to do just that? If so, then this book might be just the thing for you to discover just why if is so important that we learn to love like God.

Do you know why we see so little change in our world today? Do you know why the best of solutions are doomed to fail? Do you wonder why everything seems to be coming apart at the seams at every level of society? In the orchestration of God’s sovereignty, He is tearing it all down, because most people even those who profess Jesus as Lord, are chasing after their own plans and purpose, not that of God who calls us. That is why our personal lives are disasters, our nation is a train wreck, and the world has gone to hell in a handbasket. It is all orchestrated by God hoping to awaken us to ...

How would you answer that question? Whether you disagree or not is of no consequence. What is consequential is how God answers that question, because He will stop at nothing to bring His people back to a proper devotion. Should you find that thought unsettling, then may I suggest this is a book you need to read.

Have you ever had an epiphany? I don’t mean a moment of clarity or a good idea, but have you ever had a God-given insight into something you did not know before? That is what this book is about, when God opened my eyes to see and mind to understand. We never know, what we do not know, when we do not know it. But what if we could? Would you be interested? Then this book is for you.

I believe there is need for direction is built into our being. We not only want to know where we are, but where we are going. The problem is that the goal or direction for where we are headed can often be unclear. This is one of the main reasons the Apostle Paul wrote the letter to the church in Philippi of Macedonia. He loved this church and desired to give it the directions to finish well in their race toward the goal of knowing Messiah. He wrote this letter toward the very end of his life. Consequently, Paul lays out a map for the church, to set a correct course to finish well. The aim ...

I believe for the people of God that settling of the safety of the status quo leaves us immature and weak. I think that is why God has employed the tool of change to keep us going on toward maturity. Acts is a travel log of the church’s journey through the many changes that God puts in the path of His people. Change is the thread which weaves its way through the whole book. I subtitled this study guide When everything changes again because I think this theme not only draws out what is described by Luke, but also because it has real world application for anyone reading this. It is for this...

Acts is a travel log of the church’s journey through the many changes that God puts in the path of His people. Change is the thread which weaves its way through these first twelve chapters of this first volume and really the whole book. I subtitled this study guide When everything changes because I think this theme not only draws out what is described by Luke, but also because it has real world application for anyone reading this. The reason is most people find at some point in life that everything changes. How we view life through the glass of that change can either be character building...

Are you tired of all the promised changes, of all the band-aids solutions for the brokenness within you and in the world, of all the rhetoric that is just the same old lies packaged in a new way. Do you long for real change? Do you ever wonder how just one person could possibly make a difference when you cannot even make a difference in your own life? Do you want a revolution that will tear it all down and start over? Then become a revolutionary. Take up God’s plan and purpose for you to experience and see real change in you and those around you.

Lately a verse from the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Ephesian church has been rattling around in my mind. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Rarely do I consider the grief of God when I think about grief and yet there it is in that verse. It is an oddity for me to think about God experiencing grief and yet the apostle makes it clear that He does. The other perplexity that verse reveals is that I can be a key factor in bringing grief to the Lord of my life.

Do you ever wonder what you will be remembered for when you are gone? Will you leave any mark on the future that says, I was here, and that I mattered? I guess because I have rounded third base and am heading for home plate at age 71, those questions have more relevance for me than maybe they do for you. However, one day they will for you as well. Therefore, I want you to know, leaving a lasting legacy should begin today while you are still here, because none of us has a guarantee on tomorrow.

Now I want you to know that like a baby born into God’s family, I was not born knowing much and I made some mistakes. In my early years of being called by God, like a baby, most of what I was learning about God and His word came from experiencing it as the Spirit of God taught me. This idea of experiencing God and His Word makes me wonder if that isn’t why people are drawn to reading the Psalms, because they reveal what it was for someone else to experience God. Phrases like taste and see the Lord is good and His Word is sweeter than the honeycomb are conveying the experiencing of God ...

If like me, you think our world and where we are going is the wrong direction, as we gullibly follow others only to find nothing makes sense, then maybe this book is for you. If you are not sure ask yourself this: Are you tired of all the promised changes, of all the band-aids solutions for the brokenness within you and in the world, of all the rhetoric that is just the same old lies packaged in a new way. Do you long for hope and real change? Do you ever wonder how just one person could possibly make a difference when you cannot even make a difference in your own life?

In some ways I wished the Spirit of God had never awakened me to this reality I see, because I was quite comfortable with the familiar of the institutional church routine, even if that was preventing me from making much headway spiritually. The adage that ignorance is bliss was where I was at, but the God who called me was not going to let me linger in that bliss of ignorance any longer and sorry to say He had to disrupt the world with a pandemic to move me from where I was entrenched to eyes wide open.

Have you ever known the desire to escape? Maybe you wanted to escape a difficult relationship, a dead-end job, a location that you found sucking the life out you, or perhaps your need to escape was simply to be doing something more fulfilling. If any of that resonates with you, then you will appreciate my story for escape from the institutional church. I thought is was me that broken, when all along it was the zoo that we call the church that left me out of sync with the Lord of the church and longing for more.

This study guide is going to emphasize a method for developing your abilities to do your own inductive Bible study. My desire is not so much to instruct concerning the letter to the Ephesians, although you will get that as I share my discoveries with you from doing the study together, but to teach you how to learn on your own from the Bible without having to be taught from anyone but the Spirit of God, who will lead you into all truth (John 16:13).

Have you ever longed for justice, desiring for a wrong to be righted or inequality to be avenged? I often think I am prone to desire justice, if justice does not hold me personally accountable. When it comes to justice, I rarely think about God dispensing justice, because after all that is somewhere in the future right? This study of the book of Ezekiel challenges my own thinking about justice by examining when God demands justice. If God’s justice were happening right now, would the scope of that interest you? Maybe it should.

Why would anyone want to study the prophet named Isaiah? Afterall, he lived centuries ago, in a time nothing like our own days, or were they? Can a person or nation benefit from the mistakes made by others or is it just better to replicate them for ourselves? Ignoring history is certainly the right of a person or nation, and by the looks of things today we are skilled at doing that. But if you are tired of the uncertainty and chaos that is our new norm, then may I suggest the book of Isaiah has something to say to us today. Won’t you join me to see what that is?

This study is design to teach a person how to read and meditate on the Word of God. It has a refreshing approach that will captivate your interest. The New Zion Bible Study Series is design to teach a daily habit of study in God’s Word. This is the first book in the series in Kindle format to be used in conjunction with the internet, in an interactive method of looking at Bible study tools to help dig out the nuggets of wisdom found in the Word of God.

The grace of God should always be the focal point of our freedom in Messiah. When we lose sight of that, we are in danger and may well find that ourselves trading away our freedom for that of a performance-based approach to God. Please don’t let that be you. The Apostle Paul wants us to enjoy what God has done for us in the person and work of His Son, so we might be known by Him and know Him. The letter to the Galatian churches is our declaration of independence for the church even today.

I think the Jewish Christians and perhaps all Christians, who were undergoing suffering for their faith in Messiah, were looking at suffering from a perspective that they had been raise with, which put them at odds with the reality of their situation as God’s children. This is what Peter is going to try to counter in this letter. The study of 1 Peter is helpful in redirecting our focus in the midst of suffering so there is spiritual clarity, but the letter deals with so much more than suffering. I am sure you will find it to be a very illuminating study.