Jeffrey Bull

I find it compelling to the fact this week we have celebrated the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the Messiah…..and the reading of his crucifixion this week…truly Jesus came as God taking ...

As we finish reading the Gospels, I find myself loving John’s Gospel over the other 3…the reason is that I have learned so much about who Jesus is…fully God yet fully man…versus reading what Jesus did

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I am loving the most recent chapters in John…so rich in Christian teachings…Jesus is so clear in who he is…what he is called to do…and what therefore we are to be/do as devoted followers of Jesus Chri...

Once again the Life Application Bible provides an understanding of scripture that I had not thought of…the question raised was “why was John raised out in the desert?”…the answer was” Prophets used th...

Todays reading is one of the most difficult passages in the Bible for me…yes an emotional passage…as a teen, I grew up in the time of the rock star opera “Jesus Christ Super Star”…I would regularly li...

Upon. Loser look at the map and scale in the life application bible this morning, I see a little itsy bitsy decimal in front of the one🤪🤪

I thought that my understanding from the Life Application Bible was a long..long..walk🤔😉👍🐮

So in todays reading using the Life Application Bible that has a map of the walled city of Jerusalem and the surrounding area and I was startled to learn the following…I have always been familiar with...

The Life Application Bible says “the talent represents any kind of resource we are given. God gives us time, gifts, and other resources according to our abilities and He expects us to invest them wi...

Vickie…for me, I have compartmentalized “The End Times”…I have found that the topic can be all consuming in the wrong way as I my thoughts turn to the worldly way to view “The End Times”, I would rath...

For me, this whole week’s readings for me were about Trust…and…this year has provided me the understanding that faith is a noun and trust is the verb that feeds one’s faith…if I want my faith to incre...

Catching up on yesterdays posts…In the past, I always wondered how good is good enough to be on God’s team…finally, with the help of my initial Walk to Emmaus weekend, and several trips back into the ...

He is risen indeed🙏🤗👍🐮

Soooo…yes very familiar, especially as Jay has been preaching from the Sermon on the Mount…but the commentary in my Life Application Study Bible caused me to learn something that I had always glossed ...

“My God my God, why have you forsaken me” My mind has always thought that Jesus was crying out to God because of the physical pain Jesus experienced. The commentary I read raised the point that the s...

@siteadmin yes…The NIV study Bible did mention that it was the gospel of John that called out Judas…and the commentary indicated that the event pushed Judas over the edge to betray Jesus

The commentary I read related to todays reading, indicated that the primary objector to the “waste” of the expensive perfume was Judas. It goes on to remind us the Judas was the treasurer and keeper ...

Hmmm…is this the 100% human Jesus or the 100% God that gets angry…I am not sure it makes a difference as they were a “den of thieves and robbers” within God’s house…but hmmm

Great video Jimmy…I am a 50/50 text and visual learner😉🤪🐮👍

Ah yes…it was underwater At the beginning of the Cenozoic, through the Paleocene and Eocene, similar deposition to the Cretaceous took place, including bituminous limestone and mar...

Thank you Jimmy for the pictorial input…what strikes me is at both ends of the trek to Jerusalem is first the Jordon Valley…geologically speaking it looks like the Dead Sea may have flooded the entire...

“Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!” “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and ...

When I came back from working out, it was there…not sure where the glitch was🤔🤔😉👍🐮

Hmmm…image to click on not there…hmmm…😉🤗🤔👍

When I think of any of the Apostles, I am reminded of the Maundy Thursday Service we have done that captured the thoughts of each Apostle at the Last Super…in Peter’s Soliloquie, he is portrayed as on...

Catching up on last weeks comments…Travis, for me if you read on in the verse , Mark mentions that their hearts were hardened….my thought is that although they had been with Jesus for awhile…had seen ...

My commentary stated that it was very much the norm for mourners to cry out loudly…and that it was a disgrace to the family of the deceased if it did not happen…and yes, people made mourning a “job” a...

As we read through the Old Testament last year, it was my second time to do so and I found myself reading about the tribes being established and found myself drawn to Wikipedia to get maps and try to ...

Count me…I am in

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in todays reading Jesus uses the phrase “his disciples” several times…I know we had talked about the apostles as being more than disciples as apostles were chosen as ones to be sent out to spread the ...

In my commentary, they characterized the statement about being “out of his mind” as concern Jesus’s family had for Jesus’ safety…it went on to say that when Jesus found himself ministering to large cr...

My Bibles commentary regarding verse Mk 2:4 pointed out that the crowd in and around the house, could represent one’s church and the sad point is that the crowd, “church” did not recognize the need to...

For most of my life I have been a morning person wether it was getting up to go exercise or go to work early. As I started to add to it a time of scripture reading and prayer, I found I had to get up...

The commentary for versus 1:16-19 states that the disciples did not always answer Jesus’s calling the first time. Peter, James and John didn’t answer Jesus’s calling until the 3rd time. Luke 5:1-11 ...

In the commentary of my Bible it tells us that the Gospel of Mark is “action packed” and that the reader will learn more about Jesus’s actions as a servant in Mark than the other Gospels. Truly it is...

Soooo….for clarification, was one suppose to read the complete chapter 1 yesterday or do read/watch introductory material for Mark and in particular Mark ch 1…and then begin the reading today with Mar...

Here we go…looking forward to this year in the gospels…in my reading today from the intro to Mark in my study Bible, I learned that Mark was the first Gospel written and that the other 3 gospels used ...