Looks like today we are getting a double feature. Last Sunday (über letzte Sontag) I was teaching Gospel Doctrine in my family ward to adults and they made fun of my pronunciation of the name Zacchaeus. I have always said it was Zah-kay-us which is how google told me to pronounce it, but one of …
In Jeremiah 29 we are taught that if we seek God with all our heart and soul that he will make himself known to us. I have been thinking on this lately. It seems to me that my prayer life could be better. If I am to seek him with all my heart, might, mind, …
My favorite band has a song with the chorus line of “when you’re lost and alone or your sinking like a stone carry on” and I’ve been thinking about that lately. There is so many times in my life where I have felt lost and alone and sinking like a stone. Often it has been …
A few weeks back I was reading a book in the category of Christian Eschatological realistic fiction, I know right on brand for me lol. One of the characters in the book had done a 3-year study on every messianic verse in the Old Testament showing how only Jesus fulfills all of them. Being the …
A while back I was spending some time with a friend who has a child. While I was there, through a series of events, that in hindsight was inevitably going lead to this conclusion but at the time seemed unconnected, the child got electrocuted. Just to put everyone’s mind at ease the child is fine …
So I was reading in the Journal of Biblical Literature the other day and came across an interesting article entitled “The Gospel of John and the Five Senses” I naturally was excited about this as the Gospel of John is by far my favorite Gospel and the idea of seeing how he employed the five …