Author: Bob Beltz

We…would prefer to be absent from the body and present with the Lord, (II Cor. 5:8). I just returned home from my second funeral in three days.  Both were of good friends.  Many of you know of Jim Dixon’s unexpected death that I wrote about in my last post.  His funeral was Saturday.  Ken and… Continue reading What happens when we die?

  As we prepare to celebrate Easter this coming Sunday, I thought I would send out a small article I was asked to write for a local newspaper.  I had to limit it to 800 words, so it is a “bulletpoint” version of a more extensive examination of the resurrection of Jesus.  Here you go:… Continue reading Why I Believe

Christ, shield me today…(St. Patrick’s Lorica) Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  Since I have had my DNA analyzed through Ancestry.com I now know that I am 7% Irish!  Not much, but I’ll take it. St. Patrick’s Day has a special place in my heart.  As a clueless college student I wandered into a Pizza place/ Pub… Continue reading St. Patrick’s Day

(Traditional site of Zacchaeus’s encounter with Jesus) Zacchaeus…come down. I must stay at your house today, ( Luke 19:5). I can only imagine that no one was more surprised than Zacchaeus when Jesus made this statement.  It took place in Jericho as Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem for the Passion Week.  If you… Continue reading Up a tree for Jesus

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple…? (I Cor. 3:16). Congratulations Denver Broncos, and especially Peyton Manning. All of us in Denver are happy campers today.  What could be more exciting than winning the Super Bowl?  How about being God’s temple and having God’s Spirit living in you?  That was the truth Paul… Continue reading Better than winning the Super Bowl!

The Word became flesh and lived among us, (John 1:14). A number of weeks ago I was making a reference to the passage in Acts 18 where we first meet two friends of Paul’s; Aquila and Priscilla.  Paul first meets them on his first trip to Corinth.  The text tells us that they were believing… Continue reading What About Suetonius?

I could not speak to you as spiritual, but as “fleshly”, (I Cor. 3:1).  I recently began teaching through I Corinthians on Sunday mornings.  Of all the churches in the New Testament, the church in Corinth might be the most interesting.  Corinth was “Sin City” of the ancient world.  It was such a wild place… Continue reading Who is on your “throne”?

Why Read the Bible? The Law of the LORD is perfect…(Psalm 19:7). Several years ago, I wrote a book on the basics of the Bible for men who were just starting their journey with Christ. It is one of eight books I have written that went out of print last year and which I decided… Continue reading Why Read the Bible?

  The heavens declare the glory of God…(Psalm 19:1).  I’ve decided that the next time someone tells me that they don’t believe in God I am going to ask a simple question: “Why?”  My hunch is that most people who hold to the atheist or agnostic positions don’t have a very good answer.  I guess… Continue reading Science and Faith connect

Be transformed by the renewing of your mind…(Rom. 12:2). God is in the business of changing lives.  Jesus didn’t just die to make forgiveness possible.  He died to make transformation possible.  One of my mentors once commented that God loves you just like you are.  But he loves you too much to leave you just… Continue reading Being Transformed