About Jon… From 1992 until 2005 Jon served as the Executive Vice President of International College and Graduate School, a Bible college and seminary in Honolulu. From 2005 until the end of 2008 he served as the pastor of Kailua Baptist Church. In August of 2008, Jon and his wife Jeri, a teacher at Hawaii […]
Luke 1:31-38. The angel is a messenger and the message to Mary is, “I have come to give you good news, the Lord is about to enter into your circumstances.” Where that happens there shall be God’s provision and blessing. But Mary asks, “How shall this be, I haven’t had the kind of experience necessary […]
Luke 1:28-29. Mary was troubled at what Gabriel said to her. Her reaction is completely natural and understandable. Mary tries to do what most of us would try to do in that situation…figure it out. But you can’t figure God out! Reason fails us when it comes to faith and God. The Angel tells Mary […]
Luke 1:26-27. The point of Mary’s virginity was to affirm the miraculous intervention of God in her life and body, that it was an impossibility, humanly speaking. I wish for you to see yourself in Mary’s situation, not as innocent, pure or untarnished, but in the sense that there may be impossible situations in your life […]
Acts 10:39-43. The Christmas Tree has become an important part of the celebration of Christmas. The popularity of the Christmas tree is interesting since these kinds of trees are not native to the Holy Land. There is a tree however that is part of Christ’s story. The cross that Jesus died upon is referred to […]
Psalm 104:33. The little girl with a dirty, tattered dress and runny nose asked, “Are you rich?” Abandoned by her mother, she and her sisters lived with her grandmother down the street in a rickety old house with dirt floors. In her mind she had already determined the answer to her question. My immediate thought, […]
John 10:1-10. You never really know a person until you know how that person perceives himself or herself. That kind of knowing is really only experienced on those deeper levels of friendship. That is precisely what is happening throughout the gospel of John, where Jesus shares His great “I am” passages. I am…The Bread of […]