If you missed the email or post about the latest episode of The Road to Somewhere, the links to both the episode and teaching video are below.  We have left Texas and entered New Mexico on Route 66.  Our only stop in New Mexico is Albuquerque, and our biblical text is the book of Acts.  I taught two sessions… Continue reading Up, Down, and Update

Are you ready for a quick trip from Texas into New Mexico on Rt. 66?  For reasons previously explained, the short video for Season Six, Episode One, was an experiment in filming a session via Zoom.  It isn’t perfect, but it gives a quick look at the next stop on Route 66: Albuquerque, New Mexico and a… Continue reading Up, Down, and Out

If you have gone to the first link I sent this week you might have been disappointed that it didn’t get to the actual nativity event. I forgot that I actually did two sessions on the incarnation. The first was on the annunciation. The second is on the actual birth of Jesus. Here is the link to session 2:

https://youtu.be/-SewmSDA21k

In today’s session of Season Five of The Road to Somewhere, we make our fourth and final stop in the state of Texas.  John and Joy drive Rt. 66 to Glenrio, Texas, literally on the border of Texas and New Mexico.  Here we look at the final piece of Jesus’ life through the lens of John’s gospel.  Beginning with the… Continue reading The Most Important Week in Human History

In today’s session of Season Five of The Road to Somewhere, we make our third  stop in the state of Texas.  John and Joy arrive in Amarillo, Texas, and we will take a quick look at the third piece of Jesus’ life through the lens of Luke’s gospel.  This is a time of growing opposition from the Pharisees and Scribes.  The… Continue reading Religious Dudes Hate Jesus

In today’s session of Season Five of “The Road to Somewhere”, we make our second stop in the state of Texas. We stop in McClean, Texas, and take a quick look at the second piece of Jesus’ life through the lens of Mark’s gospel. This includes the early ministry of Jesus from his baptism till… Continue reading Everybody Likes Jesus

In today’s first session of Season Five of The Road to Somewhere, we enter the state of Texas and begin looking at Jesus through the lenses of the four gospel accounts of his life and ministry.    In this first episode, we will be stopping in Shamrock, Texas, and exploring the early days of Jesus’ life.  It will be a… Continue reading Jesus Has Arrived!

What is so good about Good Friday?  Most scholars that I have read believe the meaning of “good” in this instance carries the meaning of “holy”.  On this day we observe the crucifixion of Jesus and his death on the cross.  There came a point between noon and three on that day when cosmic business was transacted.  The video… Continue reading Good Friday

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”