Common Denominator

I had an idea. A Pastor's Brief Guide to Business . 240 pages later, it's done. ChatGPT is very good at aggregating information, esp...

I think of my dad fairly often. Most of us probably think of our dads like that. He died 11 years ago. I tend to think of him in two ways:  ...

It's been a few weeks now since the passing of Kerry Kind, but I wanted to quickly jot down some of my fond memories of him before too m...

I had this idea a while back about a guy talking to an AI about God and the AI objectively going through arguments with him. So when ChatGPT...

Here are the summaries in one place of the spade work I've been doing on the messages of the Prophets: I. From the Northern Kingdom (70...

This will complete my evidence gathering in the Prophets. ________________________ Ezekiel 1 -- he sees the glory of the LORD in hyper-symbo...

Jeremiah prophesied just before and in the earliest days of the exile, early 500s BC. __________________________________________  1:16 -- ju...

With this post we will only have Jeremiah and Ezekiel left. The prophets of this post are mostly just before the exile, with Haggai just aft...

My wandering through the Prophets continues. Here are most of the rest of the pre-exilic prophets.  _____________________ 1. Joel Is the loc...

In a previous post, I looked at themes in the first half of Isaiah. Here is a quick look at the second half, which relates to the late 500s ...

I am working toward self-publishing Explanatory Notes on the Resurrection by the week of Easter this year. Here is an excerpt from Matthew 2...

Isaiah divides into (at least) two parts. The second half clearly relates to the late 500s BC. The first part relates to Isaiah's own ti...

Malachi seems to go with Zechariah 8-14 as a third oracle. Some wonder if our current division is a less than optimal dividing of the canon....

I'm going very out of order, but for various reasons, I wanted to look at Zechariah today, which dates to the last part of the 500s BC. ...

What were the main messages of the prophets? I started with Amos . Now on to Hosea. ____________________________ Chapters 1-3 In these chapt...

I have hunches about the foci of the prophetic writings in the Old Testament. But before I say they're so, I thought I should do some gr...

I have finished editing my notes on Christian ethics and will self-publish in the next day or so. I did add a section on gun control to the ...

Filling another gap in my write-up on Christian ethics (I'm at about 225 pages). I should have it ready to publish by the end of the wee...