The verse in this week’s gospel says:  “And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. John 17.” What is Jesus talking about; “with the glory that I had before the world existed?”

What a great question.  If Jesus died and rose again from the dead, which he did, then where is he now?  The first question to ask is where was Jesus before he became the baby Jesus? We know where he was for 33 years, right here on earth.  On Good Friday after he died and […]

Is there a formula on how we should tithe? What happens if you cannot?

Here’s the fuller picture; Biblically, a tithe is the first tenth of one’s increase, set apart for God.  For us in the modern world, that’s 10% before taxes. In the Old Testament, Israel gave tithes to support the Levites, the temple, and the poor.  That’s 30% on top of what the civil government required. In the New […]

I heard someone once said to beware of that which is acceptable to the world.  What are some of the practices God is asking us to separate from?

From the beginning of the Scriptures, God commanded His people to separate themselves from the other people of the world.  They were to look different, act different, hold different opinions and to behave differently.  They were to treat people differently, they were to have a different diet, they were to not intermarry with the others […]