Welcome to Pastor’s Ponderings. I’ll be using this space to cover Biblical matters that are on my mind, that hopefully you’ll find interesting and helpful. I’ll try to keep this up at least weekly. Here are a few of the things I want to cover.

Good books to read for spiritual growth: Huegel, “Bone of His Bone”; Miles Stanford, “Green Letters”, Major Ian Thomas, “If I perish, I perish” are just a few wonderful little books that have helped me a lot.

My very favorite book of the Bible is “Hebrews”. Why? Because it covers the “waterfront” of Biblical Theology and puts the issue of Substitutionary Atonement in clear perspective, among other things. In future meanderings, I’ll review some key passages and show you what I mean.

Here’s something to think about: Did you realize that the writers of the Epistles rarely used the name “Jesus” by itself. Almost always (over 95% of the time), when referring to our Lord, they used terms like: “Lord Jesus”, “Jesus Christ our Lord”, “Lord Jesus Christ”, etc., always giving Him a title? Isn’t it a bit strange then that most of our modern writing and hymns tend to use simply “Jesus”? One would think that Peter and Paul, having known our Lord, would speak of him on a first-name basis; since they don’t, perhaps we should re-think what we call Him and why. Also, when they did use the name “Jesus”, it was apparently to call special attention to His humanity. Think about it.

I recently read a great book by Martyn Lloyd-Jones, “Life in Christ”, studies in 1 John. It’s worth your while to read it, though it is fairly long.

Next blog, I want to share my views on what “church” really is, as I understand Scripture. Hope you’ll check it out.  Bill.