The Restoration

Mike is always talking about "Restoring Shalom," and it's an idea I'd like to talk about more. I think we could fill a few weeks talking about this, and, hopefully, it will bring us into some often neglected books. Friday we'll begin in Genesis 1, and take a good at look at the Bible says about the creation when things were "very good". See you all on Friday.

Good Friday

This coming Friday will be Good Friday, so the homework will be to read the accounts of the crucifixion in the gospels. Any discussion of the crucifixion would incomplete without the resurrection, so read that too. See you on Friday.

Discussion on the Word of God

Last Friday was the first Good Book club discussion group. Whenever I'm involved in a new group, I like to begin by bringing the focus of the group to the Word, so we discussed what the Word of God is, and what the phrase means. After I decided this would be the focus of our first discussion, I did some research and found that there are over a thousand verses with the word, "word." So the topic was a lot bigger than I expected. That being said, we initially focused on the fact that Jesus is called "the Word" in John 1:1, and the "Word of God" in Revalations 19:13, and what it means that Jesus is given this name. Then we looked up other verses that describe what the word of god does. We found out that, among other things, the universe was created by the word of God, the word of God was given to us and abides in us, and the word of God stands forever.

It was a great discussion.