The Berea Page

Click the title to go to the The Berea Page - a two-page e-zine taking its title and goal from the example of the Jews in Berea and other biblical exhortations to examine and test what we hear and believe.

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Truth Applications is a title designed to reflect a determination to search for, understand, and explain truth. I believe  that, as Immanuel, Jesus embodies and reveals the most significant truth (John 1:14; 8:32; 14:6, 9; 17:17). I believe everyone should know, love, and live in imitation of his example and teaching. My search is admittedly incomplete since I am, by virtue of limited understanding and failure to match God's glory, imperfect. But, like Paul, I seek to better "know him . . . , pressing on . . . because Christ Jesus has made me his own" (Philippians 3:12). ~ David Anguish

Added May 4, 2020 - Berea Page Issue 1/9 - May 4, 2020 -  John's Stand for Jesus (3)

Added April 28, 2020 to the Sermons & Class Notes (Miscellaeous Sermons section) - The Mother Whom God Remembered (1 Samuel 1:1-2:11)

Added April 13, 2020 - Issue 1/8 - April 13, 2020 - John's Stand for Jesus (2)

Added April 12, 2020 to the Papers and Publications Page: Resurrection Is For Now! - A reflection on the here-and-now value of Jesus' resurrection, written for inclusion in a service on Easter Sunday, 2020--during the COVID-19 pandemic.

My Book: Getting Acquainted with the Bible

Getting Acquainted with the Bible: Its Makeup, Purpose, and Story - click on the title for more information about my book, a primer designed to acquainted readers with understanding of basic information about the Bible. It answers the questions: What are its parts? Why study it? What is its story, its plot? How do its various parts fit in that story?

Recently Added Sermons/Classes

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In the Series: "Miscellaneous Sermons"

Recently Added to Publications & Papers

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  • Added April 20 - Resurrection Is For Now! - A reflection on the here-and-now value of Jesus' resurrection, written for inclusion in a service on Easter Sunday, 2020--during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recently Added Bulletin Articles

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Lessons for Equipping Saints

Go to the Available Lessons page to learn about short lesson series I have prepared to help equip believers (see Eph. 4:12) for better understanding and service in the 21st century. Available series include:
  • Resurrection 101
  • Life and Trouble:
    Improving Our Perspective    ​
  • Also: Can We Trust the Gospels?

Obiter Dicta
"an incidental or passing remark, opinion, etc." ~ Dictionary.com

Quotations I've found especially thought-provoking
     “If there is one thing which should be quite plain to those who accept the revelation of God in Nature and the Bible it is that He is never in a hurry. Long preparation, careful planning, and slow growth would seem to be the leading characteristics of spiritual life. . . .

    “It is refreshing, and salutary, to study the poise and quietness of Christ. His task and responsibility might well have a driven a man out of his mind. He was never in a hurry, never impressed by numbers, never a slave of the clock. He was acting, He said, as He observed God to act—never in a hurry.”

— J. B. Phillips, Your God Is Too Small (Macmillan Paperbacks, 1961), 55-56