Author: Bob Beltz

(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

Stop conforming to the pattern of this world…(Rom. 12:2)  Once you have “presented yourself” to God, you are beginning to get positioned to be a reflector of God’s glory. But Paul goes on in this passage to tell his readers that there is something more they need to do. He tells them they are to… Continue reading Spiritual Positioning, pt. 2

  Present yourselves as living sacrifices…(Rom. 12:1)  So we all survived the final blood red moon of the blood moon tetrad…so far. We still have a couple of days left in the Feast of Tabernacles, which ends at sunset Sunday (in Jerusalem). For those who are convinced Jesus will return during this feast, we will… Continue reading Spiritual Positioning

First, let me thank those of you who have read “Lilith Redeemed” and given me feedback. It would be great if you would consider writing a little review on the Amazon site. As I’ve told many of you, a number of my books have gone out of print recently and the rights have reverted back… Continue reading “She Loves You” now available.