The Lord has taken me back to review the story of the twelve spies surveying the land God was giving them. I'm sure you remember the salient details - the land was awesome, the spies came back, and 10/12 made up stories about the residents being Nephilim and recommend against going forward. Only Caleb and Joshua brought the true report and recommended going forward.

As I meditated on this message I had two immediate questions:

1. WHY? Why did God even send the scouts? Why didn't…

As we approach another celebration of the Resurrection on Easter Sunday, the  timing of the death of Christ always kind of bothered me.

Matthew 12:40 states:

^“For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” 

Even a casual student of scripture then should [must?] contrast the statement in Matt 12:40 with our…