The Telos Project

It was the biggest robbery in history.  The exiles who returned from captivity in Babylon have robbed God!  God said so. How did they rob him?  They neglected to give the 10% of all he helped them make back to him.  It was his.  They robbed him.  The result was that he withheld his blessing.  It is about 420 BC, roughly a… Continue reading God Gets Robbed

Sixty-six years have elapsed between the last episode of The Road to Somewhere and this week’s session.  A lot has transpired.  Jerusalem was destroyed in 586 BC and this week’s prophet is sent by God to Jerusalem in 520 BC.  In between, the Persian Empire has conquered the Babylonian Empire, and the King of the Persian Empire… Continue reading “Consider Your Ways”

This week’s episode of “The Road to Somewhere” gives you another two-for-one. We head to Clinton, Oklahoma, and we take a quick look at two of the Minor Prophets. Clinton is one of the “must stop’s” on Route 66. The reason is the Route 66 Museum that is located there. Showing the history of the… Continue reading Another Double-Header

This week’s episode of The Road to Somewhere takes us to Hydro, Oklahoma.  On the way we drive through El Reno, Oklahoma, the home of the onion burger.  Created during the Great Depression to make the burger meat go further, each burger is mashed together with a half an onion.  On “Fried Onion Burger Day”, the entire town comes out… Continue reading World’s Largest Burger

We are back on the road again!  This week’s episode of The Road to Somewhere takes us to Bethany, Oklahoma, and through the Minor Prophet Micah.  Bethany is the home of Southern Nazarene University.  The town was built by the Nazarene Church in 1909.  There was no drinking, smoking, gambling, or other worldly habits in Bethany. It was an attempt to… Continue reading Half-way Home

On this week’s episode of The Road to Somewhere, a fish catches a man.  Men often catch fish, but a fish catching a man is rare.  But that is what happens in the Old Testament book of Jonah.  It is one of two books we explore in this week’s episode while we stop in Oklahoma City on Route 66.  Obadiah… Continue reading Fish Catches Man

On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.  In the speech he quoted one of the Minor Prophets.  He said, “Until justice rolls down like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”  The quote is from the… Continue reading Let Justice Roll Down

I was speaking to a men’s group this week on the book of Lamentations.  I felt a little bad since there was a celebratory mood in the room related to the events of the last few days and I didn’t want to depress them since Lamentations has been called “the saddest book in the Bible” I… Continue reading How to Get a Preemptive Pardon

No, they are not playing in the NFL playoffs.  But if they were, the Locusts would definitely win!  Grasshoppers and Locusts are the same species.  Grasshoppers become locusts when they begin to swarm.  And when they swarm, everything in their path is completely destroyed.  Such is the case in the first chapter of Joel, which is the book we look… Continue reading The Grasshoppers vs. the Locusts

You wouldn’t expect to find a piece of instruction from God like this in the Bible.  God told Hosea, “Go marry a whore.”  He then told Hosea that his wife was going to be unfaithful and end up either in prostitution or slavery.  Under Jewish law, Gomer (the whore’s name) should have been stoned to death!  Instead,… Continue reading Go Marry a Whore