The Samaritan Woman

How many times have you read or heard this story about the “woman at the well”? You know, the Samaritan woman that Jesus encounters and speaks to about living water. How many times do you just think it’s a nice story, it shows Jesus’ compassion, with no other thought at all? Maybe you have other ideas about the passage already. Today I am going to look at this story in John 4:1-42. Read the passage and see if you agree with me.

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What is The Blessed Hope?

What is “the blessed hope”?

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Have you ever heard anyone say those words, blessed hope? Perhaps it was something like this, “this is our blessed hope.” Are you a new Christian on your new journey in your new life and just don’t know what that means? Perhaps you heard a pastor, mentor, or other person claim one thing as the blessed hope but someone else claim something different.

A little background as to why I am posting this is that a Pastor I know (and it’s not my intent to call anyone out) claims one thing about his “blessed hope” that is just not what the Bible says, so it got me thinking, maybe I should set it straight in case anyone out there has ever been told something wrong. But this isn’t my words, I am going to show you with scripture.

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Pointless arguments by Christians

Today I want to write about some things that divide followers of Christ that really shouldn’t. I want to write about things I have been hearing, or heard, in my life as a believer in Christ. Maybe some of these things will be familiar to you. This is not going to be a Bible study today. My life has been pretty chaotic lately taking care of my elderly chronically ill cat among my other duties. That doesn’t mean I am not continuing to study, but it does mean I haven’t had the time I would like to get my thoughts assembled and written into my next blog post. It will come.

First of all I want to make anyone reading this to be aware that whatever I say here will be my observations and my opinions and my criticism, if needed. I am not asking anyone to agree with me. My blog is not a place for arguments or judgement. My blog is a place for my thoughts, my opinions, and hopefully encouragement to others to be in a close relationship with Christ, every day of every week. I do short Bible studies here on things that have interested me that I want to share with others so that you may dig deeper yourself. If you find something different than I did, okay, that’s fine. My goal is for you to read the scripture, in it’s context to get the true meaning of what it is conveying.

There are some really tough deep dives that I would love to write about here, but I’m just not ready yet. As it is, things I might say in this post may not be easy for me to write about. However, I think it could be beneficial, maybe an encouragement or something that you’ve heard and didn’t feel like anyone else was on your same page. Maybe it’s something you need to hear because you’ve been guilty of getting into these types of arguments with fellow believers.

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Book Review: No More Boring Bible Study

Today’s post is linking to you to my review of a book I recently read. Below you’ll see a screen shot of said blog post. The Write Planet is my first blog and where I choose to keep my review posts. I’ve recently revived the blog and attempted to keep it more focused than it used to be. I hope you will go check it out.

Link below.

https://thewriteplanet.blogspot.com/2026/04/coming-soon-book-review.html

The Truth About The Christ

Who is the person we call Jesus? Where did he come from? What was his purpose? Where is he now? What is his name and what is the significance? These and other questions will be answered in the best way that I can say it, with the help of scripture and the Holy Spirit. Let’s study the life, death, resurrection and purpose of the 2nd person of the trinity, God’s son. During this study I hope you will learn the truth, put aside your traditions and your presuppositions and just focus on the truth as the scripture tells it. Say a prayer and ask the Holy Spirit to guide you in your understanding and your thoughts so that you can know the real truth and worship the true the Son of God.

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