by ccpwebteam | Feb 4, 2016 | Spiritual Life
Just before the new year I highlighted highlighted Mark Edwards’ thoughts on the passage of scripture in Mark chapter 9 which features Jesus teaching a distressed father about faith. A few verses after the one in that post, the disciples come to Jesus with a...
by ccpwebteam | Dec 28, 2015 | Spiritual Life
In Mark 9 the Holy Spirit gives us the record of what happened when a man brought Jesus a difficult and (humanly) hopeless situation–his son was possessed by a demon who was bent on destroying the boy. Jesus asked him how long it had been this way for the...
by ccpwebteam | Nov 10, 2015 | Monday Study Notes, Spiritual Life
Last night we continued out study through James’ letter. Here are the notes: James 4:13 -17 4:13 This is a picture of planning without reference to God. It assumes we have tomorrow. It is self assured: It declares what we’ll do, declares it will be successful....
by ccpwebteam | Sep 16, 2015 | Spiritual Life
The video above is footage of something I didn’t know existed until a couple days ago. It’s called an Aeolian Harp–which is a harp that is built outside, specially tuned, and then played only by the wind. That’s right–no one touches it....
by ccpwebteam | Jul 29, 2015 | Spiritual Life
In connection with last week’s study on maturity, here’s a passage from William R. Newell’s commentary on Hebrews. This is on Hebrews 5:12-14. He’s bringing a little fire: [How could the Hebrews be tempted to turn back from following Christ,]...
by ccpwebteam | Jun 30, 2015 | Monday Study Notes, Spiritual Life
Last night we continued our study of Jesus’ teaching in Matthew chapters five through seven (otherwise known as the Sermon on the Mount). The notes are rough until the end, but here they are… 7:6 A hard to understand verse. May mean something like:...
