Westing Peacefully

  When I was a youngster in a conservative Church of Christ, I often worried about what was most important. I knew Jesus had said that the m...

 A Brief History of the Church of Christ The original church of Christ was founded on the Jewish feast-day called (in English) "Penteco...

  [Social media sites] are speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation, and that has to stop. -...

  Going to "worship service" was the way of the old covenant.   In the old covenant, God dwelt in his Holy Temple. To serve him, ...

  For consideration:   Genesis 2:7 (WEB) Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of lif...

  It is my understanding that we really don't know what the Passover meal practices were in Jesus' day, but that the Jewish writin...

  Ex 20:5 ...you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, In Hebrew, "bow" a...

A data point we all might want to consider about the seven-day stay in Troas, in Acts 20:7, is that Paul and his company were not in control...

John 3:5-10 (WEB) Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom. Tha...

The first mention of symbolic writing is the so-called "mark of Cain", some sign that had a meaning of "do not kill this ma...

The physical bodies of Jesus, Enoch, and Elijah were taken into heaven. We are told that Enoch's body was "translated". We...

  Yahweh said: WEB Ex 20:4 “You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is ...

The nation of Israel had failed, for a long time, to keep the Passover "according to the way it was written". When King Hezekiah...

  WEB Matt 18:2 Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them 3 and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless ...

  Did you know ... that in his later years, the very wise King Solomon became very foolish, and as a result, the United Kingdom that David...

  WEB Matt 4:18 Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net int...

Jesus was told to bow before Satan. This is the action of "proskuneo", translated "worship" in most English Bibles. It...

proskuneo - bow before, kiss towards (John 4:24) letriea - serve (Rom 12:1) leitourgia - liturgy, church rituals (Heb 9:21) eusebeó - sh...

Col 2:9 For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily, "dwells", present-tense. Never noticed that before....

Here's the story of 1 Cor 16:1-2. There was going to be a famine in Judea. Paul was asked to get the Gentile churches to send famine-rel...

When you say "worship", what do you mean by the word "worship"? That English word is very plastic, and means different t...

A man appeared to Samson's mom before Samson was conceived. He appeared a second time, and mom went and fetched dad. The man's face ...

The "technical" vs "generic" usage of the word "Apostle" WEB Acts 14:14 But when the apostles, Barnabas and P...

If you are a follower of Jesus, this is your function: 1 Peter 2:5 (WEB) You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to b...

"pastor" is the Latin version of the Greek word "poimen". They both mean "shepherd". Use the word "shephe...

It was "the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests" (Acts 5:24) who were against the Apostles in the earlie...

Did you know that the eleven Apostles, joined by over a hundred other believers, were continually in the temple, praising God for the few da...