Author Archives: St. John Studies

“It is God’s will.” I was at the funeral visitation and the older woman approached the relatives of the deceased with that message, “It is God’s will.” Of course one can look at death that way. In my opinion, that’s … Continue reading →

My wife and I don’t get into a deep theological discussion that much [if at all] but yesterday we were walking and she raised a good point, “Who would want to be Job?” In this popular Old Testament book, Satan … Continue reading →

Pastor Idleman in Chapter 3 is hitting us hard with example after example of difficult circumstances in peoples’ lives and he does that to get the reader to recall those bumps in the road that we all have experienced. Sometimes … Continue reading →

I don’t know how many of you are studying along with me but Chapter 3 really gets into the moments of crisis that God uses to draw us closer to Him.  Pastor Idleman has a long list of times when … Continue reading →

We have all known people who are going through hard times.  Heck we have all had hard times. Have you heard anyone say “This is part of God’s plan for you” or “God won’t put any more on you than … Continue reading →

As we get to the end of Chapter 2, Pastor Idleman concludes with a prayer. He references 2 Kings when Elisha the Prophet was attacked by King Aram.  Elisha saw that God was with him but his servant did not.  … Continue reading →

So far I have “cherry picked” important ideas out of Pastor Kyle Idleman’s book AHA. I have written about how God is trying to communicate with us because He loves us.  I believe He really does.  He does not want … Continue reading →

Pastor Idleman turns to the Cain and Abel episode in Genesis to explain what we normally feel when we sin. Now before you go there, most of us don’t murder our brothers so don’t draw that parallel because the murder … Continue reading →

Over my years of teaching communication, one of the favorite subjects I taught was listening.  I don’t know why.  My wife tells me often that I am not very good at it.  Guess why…I am always talking.   She is a … Continue reading →

Pastor Idleman uses so many attention-getting examples in his book from everyday life.  Many of us have I phones and he talks about the different ring-tones and alarm tones than can be accessed to get your attention.  He compares that … Continue reading →