Author: Michael Salsaa

Today’s class is mostly taken from previous classes. In it, I would first like to answer a question Carloyn asked about the glory of God. Second, I will attempt to answer the question, what is this grace upon grace that we’ve been given according to Jesus. Jesus encourages obedience, which we’ve defined as “doing things…

Genesis 1:1-5 – “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth… And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.” Have you ever noticed that God created time on the very first day of creation? By doing so, He established time as sacred, setting it apart to mark His will and the…

Is God funny? Does God tell jokes? Have you ever considered whether God has a sense of humor? This may not be a topic that you’ve heard a preacher talk about during a church sermon, but is there something we can learn about God’s sense of humor? I think God does have a sense of…

I have always searched for answers, for the truth. Socrates said “The unexamined life is not worth living”. If I knew what is important from what isn’t, I reasoned, then I can live a better life, a life worth living. It annoyed me but also amused me that most people didn’t seem to contemplate or…

I would like to both acknowledge and dedicate this class to my friend Debora who has been instrumental in bringing this to life.   Last week I received a message from Alice. It was quite obvious from her message that she had experienced a moment of awe. When Moses asked God for His name, God…

Last week the question was: “Do you see this world, this life, as essentially good or as essentially evil?” Perhaps what we were missing from this discussion is that the designation of what is good and what is evil is relative. It is based on the observer. It comes from a human centric vision. When…

It seems that a large portion of what God tried to get us to see is His grace. We tend to be blind to it, because grace is very different from our natural knowledge, which arises from our vision into how humans and the world function around us. We look for cause and effect, we…

What do you see? This is one of the existential questions that God asks of each of us. Vision and light are some of the most occurring themes in the bible, and for an important reason. It seems as if God takes us on a spiritual journey of sight and blindness, light and darkness, insight…

Today, we will start a three-part discussion on light and blindness. It seems as if God takes us on a spiritual journey of sight and blindness, light and darkness, insight and ignorance.  In the very first chapter of the bible the Creation and the manifestation of Light together convey a certain truth about God. Let…