January 22, 2022 |
Pastor Gary Combs responds to questions about this week’s One Year Bible readings. He discusses the meaning of the name “Israel,” the dream that Joseph had of his brothers and parents bowing to him and the Matthew reading about what some have called the unforgivable sin.
January 15, 2022 |
This week’s question probably comes from one our our One Year Bible readers concerning the use of names in the book of Genesis. Here’s the question: “In Genesis, why is Jacob/Israel so inconsistently named? When God changed Abram’s name to Abraham, that was that, but not with Jacob/Israel.”
October 28, 2021 |
June 30, 2017 |
“You shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord will name.” – Isaiah 62:2 NKJV We just returned from a ten-day tour of Israel yesterday. I’m still pretty jet-lagged, but I had to tell you one of the wonderful God-stories that we experienced while there. The week before we left on
April 1, 2016 |
“Jesus said to her, ‘Your brother will rise again. ‘ Martha said to him, ‘I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.’ Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you
December 24, 2013 |
“When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us’” (Luke 2:15 ESV). Robin and I had the privilege of visiting the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem this past summer
October 18, 2013 |
“Jesus said to her, ‘Your brother will rise again. ‘ Martha said to him, ‘I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.’ Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you
September 27, 2013 |
Watch this short video I made about Capernaum: