We briefly ramble on about the horrors of war and while sometimes necessary, too often they are fought for the powers that be (politicians, bankers, etc.). As the war in Ukraine drags and the propaganda intensifies, the West seems to be looking for a way to expand the war. We have to ask why.

Just a little side path before we get back to looking at living the Christian life.

We've applied this idea in a number of studies, but today we focus on it alone. That is, the false dichotomy of "Heaven or Hell" and "Saved or Lost." If that is your theology, you will see every verse, every warning, every loss as some comment on going to heaven or hell. We've covered the common mythology of hell previously. Today, we see how that mythology combined with the limited parameters of heaven or hell thinking will lead to many bad doctrines, including a denial of the finished work of Christ.

We take at look at the topic of fellowship in the context of both salvation and interpretation. When it come to interpreting scripture, I hope I'm consistent and I implore anybody in any system to be consistent (or at least try to be consistent unti it doesn't work!). Surely, we can find fellowship with ALL who have found Life in Christ and who are resting in Him alone via the true gospel of the grace of God. But, naturally, we fellowship at different levels. With that said and understood, we are also careful to draw lines regarding those who are without. And a lot of theose people outside of Christ still take the name of Christ. We also get into popes, cardinals, and stuff like that there.

We take a look at the traditions and practices of Lent in light of scripture. We then go back and examine these practices in light of history and scripture. We take a closer look at Peter's epistles and James' epistle to the Hebrew believers in light of the hope of the Kingdom. We focus on the examples of Abraham and Rahab. Is that really what the Lord is calling us to do today? The "good works" the Lord wants consist of human sacrifice and lying? We make sense of these things as we always do, by looking to scripture in context.

In our quick journey through scripture, we've entered in the Book of Exodus. We will meet Moses and take a loot at the law in its place under the Old Covenant with Israel. We're not just going to talk about the Old Covenant and the New Covenant, we're going to actually read them. We're also going to look at the context of the passage in Ezekiel in regard to the heart of stone and the heart of flesh and see if there is anything there for us. Spoiler alert: not much.

We pause to comment on the revivals breaking out in places like Asbury University in Kentucky and Samford University in Alabama. Yes, I know I called Asbury "Azusa" a couple of times. Getting my revivals muddled by my bad-addled brain. While always happy to hear the name of Christ exalted, we want to understand exactly what biblical revival looks like. We are taking no position on the aforementioned movements because we don't know. I'm not there. Hoping and praying for the best, we try to give some biblical guidelines for recognizing a true work of God.

We fisnish our look at Genesis (maybe) with a look at Noah and Abraham and Abraham's offspring. We meander around the patriarchs after a brief look at the silly, Satanic grammy awards show. Scripture tells us how Satan work, and it's not through silly red costumes and bad music. Well, maybe he does use bad music.

We stay with Adam and take a look at the first couple's attempt to cover their own nakedness. As beautiful as nature may be, it's not terribly friendly to us. It kind of hates us, actually. But it wasn't created that way. Adam hoped for a restoration of nature, which will come one day. God is a God of restoration. Although there are different families of God, all hoping for a restoration of one kind or another, they all have this in common: all hopes are built on the single and completed sacrifice of our Great God and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

We're back looking at Adam and all the foundational truth of scripture found in Genesis. We see how Adam is juxtaposed with Christ. We see the plan of God already unfolding for the sacrificial death of Christ. We look at the different bodies God sees. We also examine the ideas of body, soul, and spirit. We see Christ in Abraham and Isaac's journey to Mount Moriah. All in all, Christ is exalted. Finally, we see the extent of the Love of Christ for his creation.

We start our whirlwing tour of scripture by taking a look at the origin of it all. Do you believe in the theory of evolution? I used to. I was a huge fan of the Cosmos series of the early 1980s. But by the time I graduated from university, I had already essentially abandoned it. So, when I finally came to faith in Christ, I could begin to investigate God's plan for this old earth. We jump right in to the Book of genesis and briefly look at Adam and Eve in the Graden, their loss, their punishment, their hope. We look at Noah and Abraham. We take a look at a couple of "Bible Commands" that would be stupid for us to try and obey today! God said build an ark! But we don't obey that command for two reasons: God was speaking to us and there is no flood coming. That is, the economy or dispensation has changed. The conditions have changed. That's the groundwork we need to start to understand how to "rightly divide the Word of Truth" as Paul commands us in 2 Timothy 3.