This book discusses one of the most important set of verses in one of the most important chapters in one of the most important books of the Bible. The whole theology about being born again is based upon a conversation that had happened between Jesus and a Pharisee named Nicodemus. From that conversation, one can easily see the analogy between the serpent on a brass pole in the Old Testament and Jesus on the cross at Calvary. That analogy makes it clear that Jesus is the only way of salvation. People may try whatever they like. But no one comes to the Father except by the Son. John 14:6 says,...

When this book was begun in late November 2013, the intent had been to write a commentary on chapter five of the Apostle Paul's letter to the church at Ephesus. However, about fifty pages into that endeavor, it had become very clear that the book was not going in that direction. For one thing, his letter to that church had not even been mentioned in those pages. For another, the focus up to that point had mostly been on Paul's missionary journeys. The reason for those problems was that the original intent had been to put his letter to the church into the context of his journeys. But there had...

The first part of this book begins with Paul's final days of freedom before being arrested in Jerusalem. The timeframe would have been at the end of his third Bible-recorded missionary journey. He had been returning to that area so that he could attend the upcoming celebration of Pentecost. He had also gone there to take some financial aid to the church in Jerusalem. While there, he had participated in a Nazarite ritual with four men that had taken a vow. Following that ritual, he had gone to the synagogue with those same four men. But as soon as some of the Jewish people from Asia had seen...

Twenty-seven times in the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible the phrase "be not afraid" appears. Therefore, each of those cases will be discussed in this text. To better analyze them, they have been broken into eight separate categories. The first category, which is to "be NOT afraid" of the Lord, will be examined in chapters one and two of this text. Those chapters will look closely at the ruler of the synagogue whose daughter had just died and also at the disciples when they had seen Jesus walking to them ON the water. The second category, which is to "be NOT afraid" of the unexpected,...

Many but not all of the heroes of the Faith are named in the book of Hebrews, chapter eleven. Sixteen saints were specifically named in the first thirty-two verses of that chapter. But many others were implied indirectly in the last eight verses of that chapter. Hebrews 11:32-40 says, "And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell...of the prophets: Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight,...