The Promised One: The Mystery of the Messiah

The Promised One: The Mystery of the Messiah The Promised One: The Mystery of the Messiah is a Bible study that reads like a story. Discover the grace and unfailing love of God in the Old Testament.

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04/10/2021

The more we learn about the universe, the stronger the evidence for design. The heavens do declare the glory of God. And the smallness of our comprehension.

02/03/2019

In 1938, an atheist and Soviet spy named Whittaker Chambers had an "aha" moment while feeding his daughter in her highchair. I picture him holding the spoon in one hand, waiting to pop porridge into her mouth. As he waited, he contemplated the delicate convolutions of her ear.

The thought occurred to him that her ear had not come about by a chance coming together of atoms; it could only have been created by "immense design." He did not want the thought and for a time resisted its implications, but eventually he faced the choice they required. He went on to renounce communism, testify in the Alger Hiss trial, and recount his journey in his book, Witness.

Some thirty years after Whittaker Chambers' epiphany, I experienced a similar one, only I was standing outside my apartment complex, looking up at beautiful cloud formations in an azure sky rather than at a toddler's ear. It just suddenly came to me that there must be a God, a Creator. That moment was a major turning point in my quest to know the truth.

Has anyone had a similar experience? I'd love to hear about your "aha" moments.

09/19/2018

"Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but my ears you have pierced; burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.
Then I said, 'Here I am, I have come--it is written about me in the scroll.
I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.'" (Psalm 40:6-8) (NIV)

"Behold, the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29) (NKJV)

09/19/2018

Yom Kippur began today at sunset...the Day of Atonement the Messiah came to fulfill.

07/24/2018

What is your view of history? According to author C.S. Lewis, all history was "a story with a divine plot" --i.e., it began "in the beginning," involves a cosmic conflict, and is moving toward a final resolution.
The ancient Greeks saw history differently: "To the Greeks, we are told, the historical process was a meaningless flux or cyclic reiteration. Significance was to be sought not in the world of becoming but in that of being, not in history but in metaphysics, mathematics, and theology....History, in a word, was not for them a story with a plot. The Hebrews, on the other hand, saw their whole past as a revelation of the purposes of Jahweh. Christianity, going on from there, makes world-history in its entirety a single, transcendentally significant, story with a well-defined plot pivoted on Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Judgement."
--Quoted in The Quotable Lewis, ed. Wayne Martindale and Jerry Root (Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, 1989), pp.299-300.

02/23/2018

I love how God uses the "simplest" things to reach people. Whittaker Chambers, an avowed Communist, was watching his daughter as she sat in her high chair, when his eye "came to rest on the delicate convolutions of her ear--those intricate, perfect ears. The thought passed through my mind: 'No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.'" He managed to ignore the revelation for a time but dated his break from communism from that moment. He eventually became a Quaker. (Quote is from his book "Witness," p. 16.)

I'm looking forward to teaching this Bible study!
02/11/2018

I'm looking forward to teaching this Bible study!

If you're looking for a way to "keep Christ in Christmas," here's an idea: make a "Jesse Tree." The idea comes from Isai...
12/20/2017

If you're looking for a way to "keep Christ in Christmas," here's an idea: make a "Jesse Tree." The idea comes from Isaiah 11:1, where it says “A shoot shall come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.” The branch is the Messiah, whom God promised would reign on the throne of Jesse's son David. The ornaments either identify other ancestors of the Messiah or prophecies about Him. It's fun and helps keep the focus on the birth of the Son of God.

11/28/2017

Why should we read the Old Testament? Find out in this short video.

You can think of the Bible as an over-arching story of reality--a drama that has a beginning, middle, climax, and conclusion. When you only read the New Testament, you're missing the first and second acts of the drama--all that leads up to the climax!

For example, Genesis chapters 1-3 establish the setting (planet earth), introduce the main characters (God and the human race) and describe the conflict and tragedy brought on by an enemy. God promises to send a Rescuer but gives few details about Him and His mission--only that He will crush the enemy's head and will Himself be bruised in the heel.

These three chapters set the stage for all that follows in the Old Testament, as God continues to interact with His people and reveals clues to the mystery of the Messiah. Learn more in this step-by-step Bible study, The Promised One: The Mystery of the Messiah (http://amzn.to/2k1RJiG)

Had so much fun las weekend signing books at the second annual Indie Author Day at Aiken Public Library! We had some ex...
10/15/2017

Had so much fun las weekend signing books at the second annual Indie Author Day at Aiken Public Library!

We had some excellent speakers and I met some really talented Indie authors and (of course) bought some of their books.

Stay tuned for more information about next week's signing in Aiken, SC!

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