Category: Above The Tule Fog

“I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; …” – Matthew 16:18a. This is the first occurrence of the English word “church” in scripture. At one point I imagined that when Jesus said this all the disciples gazed in wonder on the fabulous new word Christ used to describe what He…

I had the opportunity recently to be able to listen to “my” music. “My” music being the 90’s Contemporary Christian / Christian Rock such as Rich Mullins, Michael W Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman, Geoff Moore & The Distance, Degarmo & Key, DC Talk, Petra, and more… and while listening to Petra for a while, while…

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations…” – Matthew 28:19a A familiar verse for most, if not all, of us. The only thing about this passage is the translation of “make disciples” which is “mathēteuō” in the Greek and only used 4 times in the Bible. Three of them in Matthew, and once…

You hear other peoples testimonies all the time. Many of them are very encouraging and uplifting and it’s great hearing what God has done in someone’s life. Although there are times people tend to embellish a story, I usually first take away the positives and give them a benefit of the doubt. But, something that…

Since the beginning of the human race in Genesis, there is one thing that all humans have a deep sense of requirement. That is control, control of your environment, control of those around you, control of your situations. God made it clear, we are not in control of those things. (Proverbs 16:9, James 4:13~15) Although…

By definition a mosaic is a form of art where you make a picture using colored stones, pieces of glass, colored tiles, or basically any object arranged to make a picture. It’s one of the oldest form of art and longest lasting, and probably the most durable. We have learned a lot from finding mosaics…

If you have not done so already, go read my former posts as they lay the foundation for this post and posts to come. I also see salvation used/is using the same framework. The betrothal is the moment that you believe in your heart that Christ is God, He died, and rose, and you agree…

If you have not done so already, go read my former posts as they lay the foundation for this post and posts to come. Now we know that God has/is using this exact covenant framework or model for both the old and the new covenants. For the old, the betrothal was the contract God gave…

If you have not done so already, go read my former posts as they lay the foundation for this post and posts to come. What is the covenant framework? It’s the framework that holds the old covenant, the new covenant, the salvation covenant and the marriage covenant. God, like every other aspect, only uses one…

I recently read an article that caught my attention. A programmer was asked the question, “in this day and age, should anyone learn assembly anymore?” Assembly is the raw code that microprocessors use, with all the high level programming, is learning assembly even necessarily anymore. I discovered his background was close to mine, I cut…