Cutting Room Floor – Blood Moons One Year Later

cuttingroomfloor**Cutting Room Floor – One of the very rewarding aspects of being a Pastor, is getting to study scripture fairly in depth each week. One of the real challenges I face fairly often is learning something that, while interesting, just does not fit with the rest of the sermon. Sometimes it would be too far off point. Other times it may be cut in the interest of time. So, I thought it might be interesting to write up a quick blog post on some of the different things I learned studying for a sermon that were left “on the cutting room floor.”**

I urge you, as I did when I was on my way to Macedonia, to remain in Ephesus so that you may instruct certain people not to teach any different doctrine, and not to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies that promote speculations rather than the divine training that is known by faith. But the aim of such instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith. Some people have deviated from these and turned to meaningless talk, desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make assertions.
1 Timothy 1:3-7

I knew that John Hagee wouldn’t repent for his blood moon teaching, nor admit he is a false prophet, but it’s still kind of disappointing. Continue reading “Cutting Room Floor – Blood Moons One Year Later”

Cutting Room Floor – What happened to Onesimus?

cuttingroomfloor**Cutting Room Floor – One of the very rewarding aspects of being a Pastor, is getting to study scripture fairly in depth each week. One of the real challenges I face fairly often is learning something that, while interesting, just does not fit with the rest of the sermon. Sometimes it would be too far off point. Other times it may be cut in the interest of time. So, I thought it might be interesting to write up a quick blog post on some of the different things I learned studying for a sermon that were left “on the cutting room floor.”**

What happened to Onesimus?
The book of Philemon is a letter from the Apostle Paul, to Philemon, who is a Christian leader at the time. The letter is a request from Paul on behalf of Philemon’s runaway slave, Onesimus, asking Philemon to receive him back not as a slave, but as a brother in faith. It is an amazing book of the Bible, really, and an amazing request when you take into account the time in history where this occurred. So what happened to Onesimus? Did Philemon do as he was asked? While we do not have an account of what happened, we do have some clues and church traditions to inform us. Continue reading “Cutting Room Floor – What happened to Onesimus?”