prophet – Three Minute Bible

February 10, 2025February 10, 2025

Colossians 3:8b – Anger Management

[… rid yourselves of] … anger …

Summary: Anger has been around for a long time. In most cases, human anger is the result of putting ourselves before God. When that happens, frustration and anger are not far behind.

The kingdom of heaven doesn’t just happen by itself. The King’s people need to stand up and be counted for the kingdom to exist on earth.

One way we are counted as People of God is by mastering our anger. God’s people don’t get angry. Well, not like ordinary people, anyway.

So what is anger, anyway?

November 14, 2024November 14, 2024

Colossians 1:24b – The Everyday Believer

… and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.

Summary: How should we understand this passage? Sometimes, understanding is hiding around the corner and can only be seen out of the corner of our eye.

July 3, 2023July 4, 2023

Ephesians 4:16 – What if God Sneezed?

From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

Summary: Paul continues with his description of the body of Christ, and with it, we continue our exploration of what that means.

June 24, 2023June 25, 2023

Ephesians 4:11b – Circles of Faith

… apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers …

Summary: Understanding who these people are requires us to understand our relationship with Jesus, the body of Christ, and those who do not yet know our Lord.

May 11, 2023May 12, 2023

Ephesians 3:5d – Fire in the Bones

… and prophets.

Summary: Prophetic voices are the mouthpieces of God when he wants to communicate with humans. When God speaks, the voices he uses have no choice but to obey.

October 9, 2021October 9, 2021

2 Peter 1:19b — Jonah and Injuricus

… as something completely reliable,

Summary: God’s Word is very different than human words. God’s motives are pure, and his perspective is true.

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020

1 Peter 1: 11 (b) — The Value of Hindsight

A closeup view of a car's rearview mirror.

…when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah …

The suffering of the Messiah is the pivotal event in all human history. Without a willing Messiah, humanity would have eventually burned itself up. In the final analysis, after all the souls were counted, God would not have had much to show for his trouble. The rest of us would have ended up in the eternal garbage bin, languishing forever in the vacuum of rejection we had crafted for ourselves.

But that is not how it played out. Instead, the God who created us became our savior. More than that, our salvation was not an impulsive gambit. It was not a last-minute effort to save the day. Instead, our God knew from the very beginning that a savior would be needed. (See Genesis 3: 14-15) He also knew who that savior would be, and the point in history when salvation needed to occur.

December 14, 2018December 13, 2018

Vision

Up until this point in Zechariah’s prophetic song he has been talking about the coming Messiah, Jesus. Now his vision switches to his own newly born son, John.

And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High;
for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him…

Luke 1: 76

At the time John is born, Zechariah and Elizabeth are old people. It seems unlikely that they would have still been alive when John started his ministry, so they would never see the fulfillment of his calling with their eyes of flesh. Through the Holy Spirit, however, Zechariah is able to see what John will become: a prophet of the Most High, preparing the way before Him.