Born again – Three Minute Bible

January 30, 2025January 30, 2025

Colossians 3:5a – Soul Searching

picture of a man and a translucent copy of himself which represents his soul

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature …

Summary: Understanding Paul’s words requires the ability to discern our invisible qualities.

The Bible talks a lot about life and death and, of course, we all know what “life and death” is.

Right?

As we have discussed in past meditations, there are two kinds of “life and death.” One is the obvious one that we see and hear about in our natural lives. People are “born,” people “live,” and people “die.” All the time.

October 23, 2024October 23, 2024

Colossians 1:18b – Dead Right

… he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead …

Summary: To fully understand the gift Jesus offers us, we must acknowledge death. The reality of death without Christ is terrifying. The blessing of Jesus is being filled with life and freed from death.

July 1, 2024July 2, 2024

Galatians 5:17a – Learning To Drive

For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh.

Summary: Teaching someone about things we can see is hard enough. Teaching people about invisible things is immensely more difficult.

April 29, 2024April 29, 2024

Galatians 4:6a – The Spirit of His Son

Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts …

Summary: In this passage, Paul gives us a different twist on what it means to have God’s Spirit in us.

February 24, 2023February 24, 2023

Ephesians 1:13d – A Reason to Believe

When you believed …

Summary: The topic of belief is a very deep well. Paul’s use of the word in Ephesians is directly related to the gospel of salvation. This is the “message of truth” Paul is talking about.

June 11, 2020June 12, 2020

1 Peter 1: 3-4 (a) — Born Again

A newborn's feet stick out of a warm blanket.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade.

It was night. We presume it was dark. The year was somewhere around 33 or 34 AD. What passed for streetlights were torches or fire-pots, and now and then stray lamp light escaping from a window.

A man of advancing age wearing the robes of a professional educator makes his way down one alley after another. Finally, he reaches his goal, a door of rough wood in a seedy part of town. He knocks and after it opens exchanges a few words. He enters. His name is Nicodemus. The person he has come to see is a man named Jesus.