Chris Vasecka's Good Faith Appraisal Blog

  1 Thessalonians 2:1-12, A Bible Study Devotion. “I’m afraid to share the Gospel…”   I’ll start with a question.  Are you afraid to share the Gospel?  The answer is usually, yes.  So the better question is, “Why are you afraid to share the Gospel?”  There are several typically answers to this q...

Jesus goes home, but home don’t want him.  A devotional from Luke 4:14-30 Read Luke 4:14-30 We see here that Jesus has returned to his hometown for the first time since he has started his ministry.  It says in verse 14 that word of his teaching had spread, so it is assumed that the people of his...

  Read Luke 4:1-13 The first observation we can make is the timing and style of the questions/temptations by satan.  When did this happen?  Immediately after Jesus was baptized and the Holy Spirit came upon him.  Jesus had just made the public proclamation that he was "open for business."  He was...

  John the B did not scream “Jesus loves you...” Read Luke 3:1-22 The question:  What, according to the preaching of John, are the cause, nature, and outcome of repentance?  (Repentance is the turning away from sin) The cause, from these verses, first of all is sin.  Without sin, there is no need...