Where's Skip

Just thought you might like to know where I will be in the next few weeks, and perhaps offer some prayers for those I will meet and for the travel times. I am back in Florida today, traveling to Melbourne to do a 2+ day conference with the Bridges for Peace people.  Then I leave…

Do This in Remembrance

we give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ  Colossians 1:3  NASB Thanks – We all know this Greek word; we just didn’t know that it was the Greek word for “thanks.”  It is eucharisteo.  When you sound it out, you will see that it is the word Eucharist – the Lord’s…

The Unbearable Lightness

for you are all sons of light and sons of day 1 Thessalonians 5:5 NASB Light – The Greek word for light is phos.  We have so many English words that come from this Greek heritage.  Phosphorous, photograph, photon.  The early Greeks saw the divine structure of the world in terms of light and dark. …

Reading Scripture

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.  2 Timothy 2:15  NASB Be diligent – If you grew up in the King James era, then you know this verse as “Study to show yourself approved.”  With that translation, we…

Hebrew Certainty

Surely you set them in slippery places; you cast them down into ruin.  How they are brought into desolation in a moment, utterly consumed with terrors!  Psalm 73:18-19  Hebrew World translation Surely – What do you know for sure?  What is it that absolutely cannot be doubted?  That is a question that has plagued the…

The First Cut

and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;  Colossians 2:11  NASB Without hands – Circumcision was a big issue in the Messianic community of the first century.  My guess is that Paul thought he put that…

The End of the Funeral

you will have the Lord for an everlasting light and the days of your mourning will be over.  Isaiah 60:20  NASB Mourning – The prophet Isaiah draws a picture of the time when God will restore heaven and earth to its intended form.  He says that we will no longer need the sun by day…

Free Books Follow-up

I got a lot of requests for the free books and I will fill them in the order they arrived.  However, I am in Seattle and the books are in Florida so you will have to wait until I return.  But they will arrive.  Thanks for your interest.