Author: drrickdavis

I may have upset someone with some of my content. Today I tried to make this post three times, got stopped each time and then everything was gone on the third try. I will try to restore my previous efforts and writings but, for now, just know I am still here (I think) and I […]

I promised last week to discuss the Trinity. Life interrupts me. This time my ministry to parolees got in the way of my blogging. Sorry. You remember we are talking about Jesus. The serious questions about Jesus, His Personhood, His life, Death and Resurrection, all deserve our attention. My main complaint about Church these days […]

Honestly you can make three lessons/sermons from the information in yesterday’s post. Let us explore how to know the information and get some help on how to teach/preach it. Post Two of this series (Christology: Talking About Jesus) begins with asking serious questions about Jesus as He is present in Scripture. The question from yesterday […]

We should be interested to note the number of persons who do not accept the Biblical narrative about Jesus but do not deny Jesus existed and His existence matters. Eminent atheists who state in print they doubt the existence of Jesus soon retract their statements when questioned. If we can consider the existence of a […]

Happy new year! We started this series on Christology for the same reason I started refereeing basketball games decades ago. I did not like what I saw on the court and thought I could add something to the game. At least I thought I could add something to the games I called. Now, I do […]

To believe in God means to be convinced that the endless chain of causality ends finally in the hands of God.\. ——Adalbert Stifter In beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. John’s Gospel, 1:1 Stifter and John look back in time to explain our current condition with […]

Men are not flattered by being shown that that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, is to deny that there is a God governing the world. —-Abraham Lincoln, 1865 I have previously stated Lincoln’s Second Inaural was among hte top ten sermons I have ever […]

All things being equal, not all things are equal. Our culture is falsely tolerant. In the interests of equality (so called) we acknlowledge the unity of all things, as though any old thing will do so long as one fellow feels it works for him. I fear this is another example of human vanity, the […]

In our prior post, number 27, we discussed the sacrifice of Jesus. His sacrifice is more than the hours of trial and then death on the Cross. He surrenders, for a time, the independent exercise of His divinity. Therefore, He could pray the night before His death, “Father, if there is any way, let this […]

”Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” I admit I have taken great peace from the answer(s) coming to me from this narrative. Forgive me if it does not meet yours. Can we believe in a loving God when there exists so much Human Evil? Why does God not stop us when […]