Jeremy R. Geerdes Posts

Notes Application Notes (1) As we saw in ch 1, the believers were still together when Pentecost came. What a profound thought: a church that met together all day, every day for 10 days straight! (3) These weren’t actual tongues of fire; they just seemed like it. The symbolism of fire is significant; it can […]

So, this week, we’re going to be discussing 1 Samuel 13. The story is probably familiar to most who have been around the church for some time. For the rest, it boils down to this: This guy Saul was “discovered” by the prophet Samuel, who was leader of Israel, in chapter 9. In chapter 10, […]

Notes Application Notes (4-5) These instructions must have been given after they returned to Jerusalem, possibly for Pentecost. At any rate, I know I would find such a directive difficult to accept and implement. I get impatient. (6) It would seem that the disciples missed that Jesus’ instruction implied that there was something more to […]

Today, the people of Parkersburg and Applington, IA, will celebrate the life and mourn the death of a man who, by all reports, was a giant. To be fair, I did not know Ed Thomas or any member of his family, but when everything I read, even in the Des Moines Register, points to his […]

Notes (1-3) These are stern words of rebuke. Paul had expected that, by now, the church at Corinth would be growing mature and increasingly prepared – and engaged – in ministry, but they were still wallowing in the same issues and squabbles that their worldly neighbors were. They were, for all intents and purposes, still […]

Notes (1-2) How often we think evangelism and ministry has to be eloquent and well-formed logic according to the world’s wisdom! And yet, Paul knew even two thousand years ago, that the gospel itself wasn’t “logical” as the world defined it. So he didn’t worry about fancy speeches or well-formulated arguments. He taught and lived […]

Notes (1) Authors identified as Paul, the apostle, and Sosthenes, possibly the synagogue ruler of Acts 18:17 (Ryrie). (1) Notice that Paul doesn’t say that he is an apostle because he chose to be, or because people elected him, etc., but because Jesus called him by the will of God. Thus, his authority to preach, […]

Today being the first day of 2009, it seems that every commentator on the planet is talking about resolutions. You know the drill: every New Years Eve, we make a series of goals that we resolve to accomplish over the course of the next year. On New Years, Day, we start trying to realize those […]