by Dennis Stevenson | Feb 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’ve said many times that reading the Bible is the greatest thing you can do to advance your spiritual maturity. Today I have to tell you a story about why this is the case. I have a theological pet peeve. It’s a topic that I’m opinionated on, but...
by Dennis Stevenson | Feb 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
As a Bible Student, I’m always looking for patterns in the text. Complementary patterns. Contrasting patterns. Repeating patterns. Patterns give me a structure around which meaning can be determined and clarified. As I was reading Eliphaz’s first speech in...
by Dennis Stevenson | Jan 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Happy New Year! It’s so odd for me to say that it’s now 2025. That’s the kind of date that I used on strategic planning documents in the late 1990s when I wanted to pick a date “really far out in the future”. Now it’s what I...
by Dennis Stevenson | Jan 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
Have you ever come across one of the genealogies in the Bible and mentally thrown up your hands, as if to say “how could this possibly be helpful?” This week in my daily Bible reading I read through the genealogy from Noah to Abraham in Genesis...
by Dennis Stevenson | Sep 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
HI , I live in Arizona, where we’ve been having record heat. Every day in July topped 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius). No matter how you measure it, that’s hot! So the family and I got away from the heat at the end of the month. We took a...
