Judges 17:1-6 IKE’S BIKE. “Welcome to the latest episode of Current Culture! My name is Geraldo Winfrey-Raphael, and I’m your host. Today we’re talking to ordinary people about morals and values and whose version of right and wrong is … well, right… or wrong. Our first guest is Ike, a high school student.” …
“to take out of them a people for His name” Acts 15:14 This verse comes after the apostles are arguing with the Pharisees about who the gospel should be taught to. The Pharisees believed that the gospel shouldn’t be shared with anyone that was not Jewish or uncircumcised (vs.5). But the truth that they had …
Psalm 46 A picture of another world: a place where children walk barefoot because they have no choice, it takes hours to purify your water if it is not boiled; you hate it when it rains because the dirt roads run through your doorway. That is reality for a large part of the …
What do you do when your refrigerator is empty (like it’s ever empty)? You go to the cabinet right? Some people even have a room, or closet devoted to keeping extra food when they run out of something. The purpose of a pantry is to never run out. We should have the same practice in …
Titus 3:3 “For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.” Interpretation: How can we judge something that we once were? All are in need of the grace of Jesus. Yet Christians are labeled as the most judgmental people. Once …
Acts 3:7 “And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength” You know those commercials with the starving children with flies on their faces, and bare, dirty feet? Click. Change the channel. You know those homeless people on the street? Look …
Acts 17:6 “These who have turned the world upside down have come here too” What a reputation. Various people of our generation have reputations that are widely known. They are usually a reputation for something ridiculous they did, but the world still knows them. However, there are very few people actually known for …
and laying hishands on him he said, “Brother Saul…” There is always at least someone that we can think about that is “marked” by something they have done. We alienate them, shun them, or ignore them. We view ourselves better then them in some way. But they cost the blood of the Creator of …
Philippians 2:6 “who being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God” We as Christians hear a similar testimony from people in the church, “I left my amazing job to serve the Lord” or “I used to make this amount of dollars but now I only make this …