The Writing Desk

  • Seeking Abigail: Scene 8

    Seeking Abigail: Scene 8

    And Peter stayed many days in Joppa…  Acts 9:43 “I cannot believe that story.” Chloe strapped a sandal on her foot. Judah laughed. “Which one?” He steadied the old woman while she put on the other sandal. “The one where he walked on water? Or when his boat almost capsized with the load of fish? Read more

  • Lifetime Students (c)

    Lifetime Students (c)

    Please don’t misunderstand. It’s not about the labels. I know that. Jesus was given all kinds of labels by man, most of them inaccurate and some downright lies. I know that we are saved by grace alone! Nothing we do in our works makes us any more a child of God than we were the Read more

  • Lifetime Students (b)

    Lifetime Students (b)

    It seems Jesus-freak-like to call ourselves disciples of Jesus Christ in today’s world. Normally, we say we are Christians and then tag on our religious denomination just to be clear. Of course, Christian is a perfectly acceptable New Testament label, but does calling oneself a Christian in the 21stcentury, post-modern, western world really tell people Read more

  • Lifetime Students (a)

    Lifetime Students (a)

    If you walked into work one day and announced you were now a disciple of your favorite teacher, you probably would get a variety of responses ranging from curious nods to disapproving looks to “She’s finally lost it.” We just don’t use this term very much outside of discussions about the early church believers. When Read more

  • Lifetime Students (d)

    Lifetime Students (d)

    This was the very question Peter had to address and answer, not in theory, but in the real world.  Matthew 26:69-75 gives us the question, presented in three different ways, which Peter needed to answer. We often refer to it as Peter’s denial and rightly so because that is what Scripture calls it. Too often Read more

  • Defintion: Lifetime Students

    Lifetime Students A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know THAT YOU ARE MY DISCIPLES if you have love for one another.  John 13:34 & 35 Disciple – mathētēs (masculine noun) (G3101) Read more