Author: Thomas

  • We’re Leaning!

    Thomas

    The sun was glaring off the fresh new powder that had been dumped on the side of Pikes Peak the night before – and it was cold! We were trudging into the old abandoned ski jump about half way up Pikes Peak somewhere around 9,000 feet and breathing was not coming easily. This was going… Read more

  • Tick Tick Tick

    Thomas

    Committing Time – Spending Time – Dedicating Time – Wasting Time – Investing Time – Allotted Time – Future Time – A Moment In Time – Eternity There are over 25 Hebrew words for time in the Old Testament and similar amount of Greek words in the New Testament. Time can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people in… Read more

  • I’m Known

    Thomas

    Once again I find the Lord is talking to me through music. It is something He used to do in years past and I have missed those messages. And while I’m at this point let me share something I learned along the way. God has given us an imagination and He uses it to talk… Read more

  • What I Want

    Thomas

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    When you’ve lost everything and there’s nothing left to lose the bottom feels like a cold basement floor. Read more

  • You’re “In” But Are You “Of” (Part 8)

    Thomas

    Last time we ended with the statement that it is not a matter “if” Jesus is coming again, it’s a matter of “when.” False teachers may scoff and the whole world may doubt that Jesus is coming again to judge the world but it matters not … Jesus is coming again: Matt 24:44 Therefore be… Read more

  • You’re “In” But Are You “Of” (Part 7)

    Thomas

    In the first two chapters Peter has been very forceful in his denunciation of false teaching and false teachers. As Paul Cedar noted … his vocabulary was confrontive and strong. It is a message that we need to take to heart here in America in the 21st century. False teaching is alive and being spread… Read more

  • You’re “In” But Are You “Of” (Part 6)

    Thomas

    This time we will conclude chapter two of Peter’s second letter with a look at the last five of our clues for recognizing false teaching and the certain doom of false teachers. We begin withClue #18 and dry wells. 2Peter 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom… Read more

  • You’re “In” – Are You “Of” (Part 5)

    Thomas

    Last time we continued with our look at 2Peter and 22 “clues” to false teaching and we left off with #11. We begin here with #12 and a the direct assault of the 7th Commandment by false teachers … You shall not commit adultery. 2Peter 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease… Read more

  • You’re “In” But Are You “Of” (Part 4)

    Thomas

    Last time in Part 3 we began looking at some thoughts from Paul A. Cedar in his commentary on Peter’s second letter. He broke down 2:1-19 into some bite size pieces, which he calls 22 clues that will help us identify the false teacher and the false message. We covered clues 1-4 and this time… Read more

  • You’re “In” But Are You “Of” (Part 3)

    Thomas

    Last time we looked at what Peter told us we need to do if we want to be a partaker of Christ (Part 2), and how following these seven steps will put us in the place we need to be in order to recognize and guard against the false teaching that would draw us out… Read more