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What Do Perpetual War, the US Military-Industrial Complex, and the Irony of Labor Day Have In Common
Taking a Stand Against Perpetual War, So That We May Never Have Another Afghanistan, or Iraq, or Viet Nam, or Anything Else Like Them by...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
Sep 5, 20215 min read
My Brush With Death and Subsequent Restoration At a Time When I Was All Out of Options
I Watched My Career Die Before My Eyes, Only to Experience the Transformation of My Soul My Own Story, a Story of Death: Not of a Person,...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
Aug 29, 20215 min read
The US Military-Industrial Complex, the Real Bible, and the Ministry of Jesus Christ
The US Is Becoming A Failed State: How Do We Turn This Around? By Rev. Paul J. Bern The United States of America, if I may risk pointing...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
Aug 22, 20217 min read
Of Humility and Salvation, as Taught by Our Lord
Jesus Teaches About the Importance of Humility (Luke chapter 14, verses 1-14) Today as we move on to chapter 14 of the Gospel of Luke, we...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
Aug 21, 20215 min read
What If Jesus Wrote a Letter to the Modern Mainstream Church Denominations? I Wonder What He'd Say?
If Jesus Wrote A Letter To America, I Wonder What He'd Say? By Rev. Paul J. Bern If Jesus wrote a letter to America, and particularly its...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
Aug 16, 20217 min read
Jesus Breaks Down In Public, and It's All Because of Jerusalem. His Despair Continues to This Day.
The Mustard Seed, the Narrow Door, and the Sorrow of Jesus Christ (Luke chapter 13, verses 18-35) Last week when we left off at verse 17...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
Aug 14, 20217 min read
Have You Ever Thought About What Jesus Thinks of Us?
Does Jesus Think That We’re “Good to Go”? How About Yourselves? Are We OK With Ourselves? (Matthew chapter 19, verses 16-26) By Rev. Paul...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
Aug 9, 20214 min read
Jesus, the Mustard Seed, and the Narrow Door
The Mustard Seed and the Narrow Door (Luke chapter 13, verses 18-35) Last week when we left off at verse 17 of Luke chapter 13, Jesus had...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
Aug 7, 20217 min read
Calculating the Positive Side of Our Mistakes, or the Lessons Learned From Our Fallacies
Human Error And What It Can Teach Us (1st Corinthians 1: 27-31; 1st John chapter 1: 8-10; James chapter 1: 9-11) by Rev. Paul J. Bern It...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
Aug 1, 20216 min read
The Pharisees Get Humiliated by Jesus As His Ministry Grows
Jesus Rebukes the Religious Leaders of His Own Faith (Luke chapter 13, verses 1-17) For this week's installment of my Social Gospel...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
Jul 31, 20217 min read
Jesus Becomes So Upset With the Religious Establishment That He Starts Making Threats
Jesus Came Not to Bring Peace, but Division (Luke chapter 12, verses 49-59) Last week in our ongoing study of the writings of the apostle...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
Jul 24, 20216 min read
Let Me Tell You About My Best Friend
How to Make Sure Your Soul Has Been Saved by Jesus by Rev. Paul J. Bern or this week’s commentary, I will be doing something that I...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
Jul 19, 20214 min read
There Is a Biblical Role Contained Within Our Laws of the Land That Remains to This Day
Balanced Justice and Lasting Healing Are the Government's Biblical Obligations (Romans 13, verses 3-5; Matt. 22, verses 15-22) by Rev....
Rev. Paul J. Bern
Jul 11, 20216 min read
The Real Jesus From the Real Bible Is Nothing Like That Portrayed By the Main Stream Churches
Observations From Reading the Bible: Jesus Was a Down-to-Earth, Nitty-Gritty Son of God (Matthew 8: 20) by Rev. Paul J. Bern Before I...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
Jun 13, 20216 min read
Has Christianity Lost Jesus? How Can We Get Back to Him?
How Christianity Lost Jesus, and Why We Must Get Back to Him by Rev. Paul J. Bern It is one of the glaring contradictions of organized...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
Jun 6, 20216 min read
Memorial Day, Stopping War, and Creating World Peace
Memorial Day, the Book of Revelation, and Peace (Revelation chapter 6, verse 8; 9, Chapter 9, verses 13-16; Matthew 5: 9) by Rev. Paul J....
Rev. Paul J. Bern
May 30, 20215 min read
Want to Be the Greatest At Whatever you do? Better Read This Before Proceeding....
Who Wants to Be the Greatest? (Luke chapter 9, verses 37-62) When we ended last week's lesson, Jesus, Peter, James and John were...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
May 29, 20218 min read
Jesus Gives a Self-Centered Rabbi a Lesson On Mercy
Jesus, the Professor, the Good Samaritan, and Showing Mercy (Luke chapter 10, verses 22-37) Last week when we concluded the first part of...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
May 15, 20217 min read
The Twin Solutions for Our Epidemic of Violence and Inequality Have Been In the Scriptures All Along
The Twin Antidotes to the Chaos That Surrounds Us Are Empathy and Compassion by Author Rev. Paul J. Bern Mass shootings and the flurry of...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
May 9, 20217 min read
Jesus Gives Beautiful Examples of the Application of Faith
The Apostles Get Another Lesson On Faith As 5,000 Are Fed (Luke chapter 9, verses 1-17) For this week's ongoing Biblical study and...
Rev. Paul J. Bern
May 1, 20217 min read
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