Last week a friend (fellow-writer with The Bottom Line) suggested I do a word study on the seven “I AM’s” in the gospel of John. I decided to take him up on it. Here’s the seven “I AM’s” listed in John’s gospel: “I AM the Bread of Life” (6:35) “I ...

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 (VOICE) Moses: 19 I’m calling on the heavens and the earth to be the witnesses against you. I gave you the choice today between life and death, between being blessed or being cursed. Choose life, so that you and your descendants may live! 20 If you love the Eternal ...

God has called you to spend your life ministering the gospel. Should you as a woman be in ministry? The question has been debated since the founding fathers laid the foundation for the nation of America. Many people have expressed convincing arguments on both sides of the question. The bible ...

They’re Speaking What? Some people have thought them to be crazy with their words flowing from their mouths, a language spoken by no other being on earth. They call it a love language from God and now neuroscience has tried to support this idea. “Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania ...

Does God Care if I Speed? By Joel B. Rom 13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. When I was in the U.S. Army, I was stationed over in Baumholder, Germany. ...

Jeremiah 31:3(NIV)—The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness. There are not many people who keep coming back after they have been rejected over and over again. But His true, deep and everlasting love keeps ...

Feeding the Spirit to Defeat the Flesh The battle began at exactly 5:30 am.  My body lay wrenched across my bed snuggled deep beneath my fluffy and ohhh soooo soft comforter.  I heard the dreaded sound clanging like a fresh piece of chalk pressed against the board too tight.  Quickly, ...

The Spider in the Mailbox By Joel B. Prov 30:28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces. I hate spiders! I absolutely detest them! When I was a child, my older brother used to harass me with them, and to this day I do not ...

There is an interesting exemption to a law in the Aloha State, one you may not believe when you hear. Undercover police offices there are exempt from the law that it is illegal to engage in sexual activity with a prostitute for money. Someone thought it would be a good ...

It seems most people want to see it before they believe it.  Thomas, Jesus’ disciple, was like that.  He said that unless he saw the nail prints in Jesus’ hands and stuck his finger into those prints and put his hand into Jesus’ side that he would not believe it ...