Connecting The Gap: Bible, Book Studies, and Interviews

In the New Testament there is a miracle that is repeated twice, once in Luke 5 and once in John 21. It is the miracle where the disciples have been fishing all night and caught nothing. Jesus comes by and tells them to cast their net to the other side of the boat and they pull in a tremendous amount of fish. Some scholars and Bible Commentaries say this is the same miracle. But is it? In Luke 5 the nets break, but in John 21 they don't. Is Luke or John lying about the story in essence making it a "fish story"? What is the meaning of the net breaking or not breaking? Is there a significance to it? This week on Connecting the Gap we dive into Luke 5 and dissect the miracle as it happened, and we answer these questions. Next week we will work our way through John 21. In both cases we solidify the fact that most everything Jesus ever did while here on the Earth was a teaching and learning experience for those around Him. You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net to subscribe to our podcast. Please share this with others that would enjoy or learn from our Bible Studies each week. Thanks for your support in prayer and we hope you have a blessed week!

CS Lewis says it the best. He says that "if you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this one." Being a part of the human race, we largely live day to day. We never expand our horizons to work towards what we are expecting for the eternal life we will have. In the Bible God promises rewards to us as Christians based on what we do here on the Earth in this "zero" time. Are you working toward a full reward, or no reward? There is a judgment we as Christians will participate in as we stand before God and give an account on what we did here below. Have you ever thought about that? How would God drop the gavel on your life if your judgment time was today? This week on Connecting the Gap, we talk about the judgment of the believer. Listen, and then if you dare, do an inventory on your life and think about where you would stand on that judgment day. You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net and please subscribe and share! Questions and comments can be directed to daniel@connectingthegap.net.

St. Augustine once said, "Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God's thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him." One place we all as Christians fall short many times, is our direct communication with God in our life. Many a Christian has neglected their prayer life because it was too "complicated" or "not very easy to concentrate" when trying to pray. There are many other excuses we can all use to justify why we don't spend the time we need on our knees having intimate conversations with our Lord. But in all reality, God hungers for that relationship with us and cherishes every moment we cry out to him whether in pain or praise. He wants to hear us speak to him the deepest desires of our hearts. It's true that he knows everything about us including our thoughts, but he wants to hear it from our own lips. We finish the interview with Kim McIntire this week as we continue to talk about prayer and how we can easily intertwine it into our Bible study and devotion time. Join us now as we sit down with Kim and finish our discussion on Abiding Conversations. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more podcast episodes and our platforms we are on. Please keep our ministry in your prayers and please subscribe and share! "Do not make prayer a monologue...make it a conversation."

Do you struggle in your prayer life? Do you feel inadequate when you try to soak in your quiet time with the Lord? Does Satan like to play tricks in your mind about your walk with God and the relationship you have with him as you attempt to commune daily with him in prayer? "I am the vine. You are the branches. Abide in me, and I will abide in you. If you abide in me, you will bear much fruit. Apart from me, you can do nothing" (John 15:5, NIV).This is Abiding Conversations, the Lord's voice as it echoes through His Word, and my prayers offered in response to His Shepherd's voice. Know. Obey. Confess. Give thanks. These five words have helped guide Kim in her reading of the Bible. They draw her into intimate conversations with her Creator and Lord as she is led by the Holy Spirit in prayer. Come join us in this journey of not just reading God's Word but communing in conversation with our Maker. This week on Connecting the Gap, we have part 1 of an interview with author Kim McIntire. We touch on a lot of the above-mentioned topics and more. You can visit www.connectingthegap.net for everything you need to know about our ministry and our podcasting platforms. There is also a link to purchase her book on our website on the bookstore page. Please subscribe and share!

Politicians stand on platforms and they say we need sudden change. We need rapid change. We need everything to change. And guess what? It's a lie. What happens when you are constantly bombarded by these methodical lies? One, you're either put into a trance and you're hypnotized. Two, you become apathetic just because you listen to it so much you forget to stand up against it. Or three, you are intimidated into submission. How do you hypnotize a nation into submission? You lie to them. This week on Connecting the Gap, we talk about this and more. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for anything you would like to know about our ministry. Visit us on Facebook, YouTube, and Rumble as well. Please subscribe and share! This ministry doesn't grow without YOU! Have a blessed week! JHM

A culture that tolerates abuse is very hard to eradicate, much harder than its leaders suppose. If David thought that his personal repentance was all it would take to restore his household’s integrity, he was tragically mistaken. Sadly, this kind of complacency and willing disregard in tolerating a culture of abuse continues to the present day. How many churches, corporations, universities, governments and organizations have promised to root out a culture of sexual abuse after an incident is exposed, only to fall back immediately into the same old ways and to perpetrate even further abuses? The Bible says that David "saw" Bathsheba. But what was it that he didn't see? This week on Connecting the Gap we discuss this as we take our text out of 2 Samuel 11. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for all of our podcasting platforms and please subscribe and share. Our goal in 2023 is to grow this ministry and reach more people with the Gospel. We are excited about what God has done through this ministry in 2022 but without your help we cannot fulfill the complete calling of what God has placed on Connecting the Gap. Thank you for your prayers and support! [TOW Project]

Why did Jesus tell Mary not to touch Him after he was resurrected but a week later asked Thomas to do the same? Are there some lessons to be learned in this story that can be applied into this new upcoming year? As we start this new year where do you stand? Do you pray blessings over this year and believe in your heart the best is yet to come? Do you stand grounded in faith that regardless of the bleakness of your current situation God is still in control? Or are you that person that has passed the new year with the mindset that you will believe it all goes away when you see it happen? This week on Connecting the Gap we talk about the tale of two faiths, the best is yet to come! You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for all of our podcasting platforms we are on and the many different outlets you can subscribe to for our podcast. As we go into this new year, if this ministry has blessed you, please subscribe and share to others as we together proclaim the gospel of Jesus to the world!

What Child is this who, laid to rest On Mary's lap is sleeping? Whom Angels greet with anthems sweet, While shepherds watch are keeping? This, this is Christ the King, Whom shepherds guard and Angels sing Haste, haste, to bring Him laud, The Babe, the Son of Mary What memories do you have of hearing or singing this Christmas carol? What do the words of this carol bring to mind or stir in your heart? Why do you think the circumstances of Jesus’ birth are so significant? By sacrificing His own life, what did Christ do for us that we could never do for ourselves? What does that mean to you personally? How does the fact that Jesus was “one of us,” affect your relationship with Him? How has the promise of Christ’s return given you hope in your daily life? How have you responded to Christ’s knock on the door of your heart? How has that affected your life? How can you celebrate that this Christmas season and throughout the year? This week we talk about these thoughts in this week's episode of Connecting the Gap. Join us this week as we discuss the true person of Jesus as the Baby, the Lamb of God, the Man, and our returning King! Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for all of our podcasting platforms and for ways you can contact us. Please subscribe and share! Have a Mery Christmas!

God has, through the redemption wrought by his Son, set into motion a new humanity. In the present age he rules the hearts of all who have turned to him in faith: in the age to come that reign will find its full completion. Sin will forever be removed and the design of Eden will be totally realized. This week on Connecting the Gap, we finish up Revelation 21 and 22 in our study on Prophecies of the Bible. This is the final week left of this study! The next couple of weeks we will do some special Christmas episodes and a New Year’s episode so you will have that to look forward to. After the new year we are on to new things! God has blessed us for sure! Please visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more information on our ministry and how you can find us on social media. Please subscribe, share and comment as that helps our algorithms! If you would like to contact us there is a contact page on our website. Have a blessed week!

This world will not continue forever. The Second Law of Thermodynamics, otherwise known as the Law of Entropy, declares that all organized systems tend to disorder after time. Like all things, the earth, along with this physical universe, will wear out. This week on Connecting the Gap, we finish up Revelation 20 and get started into chapter 21 in our study on Prophecies of the Bible. We only have two weeks left of this study! Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more information on our ministry and how you can find us on social media. Please subscribe and share! If you would like to contact us there is a contact page on our website. Have a blessed week!

Yet as the armies of the world converge upon Armageddon on a massive collision course, suddenly their objective will change. Instead of contending with each other, they will unite to fight the armies of the Messiah that descend from heaven to the storied fields of Armageddon. This week on Connecting the Gap, we finish up Revelation 19 and get started into chapter 20 as we are getting close to wrapping up our study on Prophecies of the Bible. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more information on our ministry and how you can find us on social media. Please subscribe and share! If you would like to contact us there is a contact page on our website. Have a blessed week!

A truly global economy was not possible until today. Before the advent of modern communication and transportation systems, the world was little more than a collection of economic islands. However, there is no denying the fact that the same generation that saw Israel come back in her land (1948), is also seeing the world’s economic focus set clearly on free trade zones, the reduction of tariffs and the building of “the new global economy”. This week on Connecting the Gap, we finish up Revelation 18 and also cover the beginning of chapter 19 in our continuing study on Prophecies of the Bible. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more information on our ministry and how you can find us on social media. Please subscribe and share! If you would like to contact us there is a contact page on our website. Have a blessed week!

The Beast, who was dominated by the harlot system (Rev 17:3), rises against her and destroys her and her system completely. Without doubt the harlot system was in competition with the religious worship of the Beast, promoted by the False Prophet, and her destruction is brought about so that the Beast may be the sole object of false worship as he claims to be God. This week on Connecting the Gap, we finish up Revelation 17 and also cover the beginning of chapter 18 in our continuing study on Prophecies of the Bible. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more information on our ministry and how you can find us on social media. Please subscribe and share! If you would like to contact us there is a contact page on our website. Have a blessed week!

Teachings of non-monotheistic Eastern religions (religions that believe in many gods) have infected even the Church itself, driving it increasingly toward apostasy (to completely forsake one’s faith or religion) and a laissez-faire (letting people do as they please) interpretation of God’s Word. With widespread religious deception so out of control, it is easy to understand how worldwide ecclesiastical trends are leading to the dawn of a one-world church controlled by the spirits of Satan. This week on Connecting the Gap we have reached Revelation 17 in our continuing study on Prophecies of the Bible. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more information on our ministry and how you can find us on social media. Please subscribe and share! If you would like to contact us there is a contact page on our website. Have a blessed week!

Armageddon is coming …. Who in their right mind would choose to fight with the Antichrist against God? Yet millions are making such a decision each day when they reject so great a salvation as that offered by God through His Son, Jesus Christ. For this is the heart of what Armageddon is all about. It is the world saying, “We will not bow our knee to anyone. We are too proud. We are too mighty. We are too important.” This week on Connecting the Gap we study our way through Revelation 16 verse by verse in our continuing study on Prophecies of the Bible. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more information on our ministry and how you can find us on social media. Please subscribe and share! Have a blessed week!

Many religious leaders of the present day are very enthusiastic about what they call “Christian Unity.” Millions of professing Christians are being swept by sentimental appeals into the ecumenical monster, the World Council of Churches, the one-world church. Again and again people are heard to exclaim, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we just had one great big church?” They will have their one great big church, but it will not be so wonderful. It will be a federation of God-defying, Christ-denying, apostate religious leaders. This week on Connecting the Gap we jump back into Revelation 14 and make our way through chapter 15 verse by verse in our continuing study on Prophecies of the Bible. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for more information on our ministry and how you can find us on social media. Please subscribe and share! Have a blessed week!

Many cult leaders deify themselves and humanize God; they raise themselves as gods and bring Christ down to mere human status. The false Christs of the cults are idols, and the Bible warns explicitly that when we bow down to any idol, we are worshiping devils. When social security cards were introduced, people thought it was the mark of the beast. Later came the real ID, then the COVID vaccination. Passports have been accused of being the mark as well. The truth of the matter is, when the mark of the beast arrives, the ones that are left here on the Earth that know anything about prophecy will know it. You won't buy, sell, or do any kind of business unless you accept the eternal mark of damnation. This week on Connecting the Gap we continue our study on Prophecies of the Bible and we are talking about the mark. Visit my website at www.connectingthegap.net for all the podcast platforms we are on and much more, and as always, please subscribe and share! Have a great week!

To say that he, the Antichrist, emerges from the depths may simply mean that his wicked motivations are inspired from the pits of Satan. Other passages of Scripture show him to be an evil and rational earthly being and not simply a demonic creature. When he arrives upon the world scene, he may become the most powerful and moth loathsome human being to reside on earth. He acts as the devil’s arch tool for the physical and spiritual destruction of humanity. This week we get started into chapter 13 of Revelation with talking about the beast that comes from out of the sea and what that means. Later on, within the rest of this chapter and into chapter 14 we will talk about the beast from the earth as well as the bowl judgments. Visit my website at www.connectingthegap.net for more information on our ministry and how to subscribe to us weekly. You can also visit our social media and like, follow, and subscribe as well! Have a blessed week!

In the Old Testament it was prophesied that the Messiah would be born of a virgin; what town He would be born in; what tribe He would come from; how He would grow from a child to manhood; that He would make the blind to see, the dumb to speak, the deaf to hear, and the lame to walk; how and why He would die; and that He would be raised from the grave. Yet, Israel never knew or recognized Him as the Christ. Another thought, do you think we will have the power to overcome Satan during the Tribulation Period? This week on Connecting The Gap we talk about all of this and more as we work our way through chapter 12 verse by verse. We also talk about the fiery dragon with many heads, crowns, and diadems. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for all the platforms you can subscribe to. There are also other resources there as well. Please keep us in your prayers, pray for Florida this week as they recover from hurricane Ian, and I pray you have a great week!

The seven seas of the Earth will be turned into blood. Every river (and) stream will become as blood. Every basin in your home will run with hot and cold blood. This plague will produce mind-numbing thirst from which there will be no relief. The Bible talks about this and two witnesses in what seems to be a very bazaar reappearance of some prophets from old. They die and they come back to life! We discuss that this week as we continue on our trek through Revelation verse by verse in our study on Prophecies of the Bible. Visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for all the platforms you can subscribe to us on. Please subscribe and share! Have a great week!

The Word of God is never just handed to us: it is never forced upon us. If we are to receive it’s message, we have to go over to the book shelf, table, or drawer and take it and study it. In this passage in Revelation John was told to do something that seemed to be very weird, "Eat the Book". John took the book and did as he was told. Why was he told to do that and what happened? This week on Connecting The Gap Podcast we study those verses and many more in our continuation of our study on prophecies of the Bible. We are in Revelation chapter 10 and we get started into chapter 11 this week as we go verse by verse through this book. Please visit my website at www.connectingthegap.net and subscribe to one of my platforms I am released on each week if you haven't done so already. You can also find my social media links there as well so please visit, subscribe and share! God bless and I hope you guys have an awesome week!

Variations of such psychology [visions, dialogues with higher beings, meditation, guided imagery, dream work, yoga, body movement, sensory awareness, energy transfer, reincarnation therapy, and esoteric studies] have infiltrated the church, Christian schools and seminaries, because pastors and other leaders have accepted the claim that it is scientific and neutral. Most Christians have failed to recognize the fact that Christianity and psychotherapy are actually rival and irreconcilable religious systems. We are now cruising into fall of 2022 and it is time for another episode of Connecting The Gap! This week we are continuing our study on Prophecies of the Bible as we go verse by verse through Revelation covering chapter 9 verse 12 through chapter 10 verse 7. Please visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net for our platforms we are on. You can also find our social media there so please visit, subscribe and share! Hope you all have a blessed week!

That they were called the angels of the presence means two things. First, it means that they enjoyed a special honor. In an Oriental court it was only the most favored courtiers who had the right at all times to the presence of the king. To be a courtier or a counselor of the presence was a very special honor. Second, there was more than honor here. Although to be in the presence of the king meant special honor, even more it meant immediate readiness to be dispatched on service. It's crazy to think we are already in September! This week on Prophecies of the Bible we start digging into Revelation 8 and go through part of chapter 9. You can visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net and check out all of our streaming podcast platforms. We are also on YouTube and Rumble as well. Please subscribe and share and help us grow our family! Have a great week!

God’s time is not always our time, but even if we do not live to see the fulfillment of all our prayers, we can die in hope that God will bring about the things He has promised. After the saints cries, God judges the world (Rev 6:12-17); despite the arrogant fantasies of God’s enemies (Proverbs 18:11), human power will provide no refuge in that day when the true King executes justice on the entire social order from Caesar on down (Rev 6:15). It's time once again for a new episode of our podcast! Please visit our website at www.connectingthegap.net and subscribe and please share! The only way we can grow this ministry is if you help us out by sharing to your platforms and help someone else join us in learning from God's Word. We are also on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Edifi as well. We pray you have a blessed week!

A nation cannot continue to borrow forever, going deeper and deeper in debt each year. Finally, they “hit the wall” and economic collapse or hyper-inflation is the only remaining option. This week on Connecting The Gap it is eerily current with the subject matter of this week's podcast. We talk about the 4 horses as the seals are broken releasing famine, pestilence, death, inflation and more. We are steadily making our way into the center of Revelation, verse by verse, as we continue our study on Prophecies of the Bible. Visit my website at www.connectingthegap.net where you will find the options for subscribing to my podcast as well as my social media links. Please visit, like, and share and help grow this ministry together! This week is a day early as I am away for vacation for the rest of the week. Have a great and blessed week!