Brief biography and a note about these studies.

Most of you do not know me.  I am a retired physician, an Ob/Gyn.   I grew up in a church home, meaning that my parents took me to church from babyhood, and taught me about God, the Bible, and Jesus.  I did what was expected, and for the first 14 years of my life, made a game of pretending to be a good Christian.  My parents would never have guessed I wasn’t. However, I did not understand God and was not interested in God. I knew I wasn’t good, but I didn’t care.  I only wanted to keep my parents off my back.  I lived a life of deceit, trying to fool others about what I did, and how I thought.  I was young, but had no problem disbelieving God.  I was taught that Jesus could come back at any time, and I used to make bets with myself that God would not return that night, and the next morning I would congratulate myself that he had not come back.  I was totally interested in my own life, and totally uncaring about anyone else.  I hated my sisters for they interfered with my life.  I was totally focused on me.  In that sense, I was very 21st century, though this was the 1950's. 

The summer of 1960, I was at a Bible camp and a young football coach was preaching.  He told me about what Jesus had done.  He reminded me about Jesus being beaten, pushed around, abused in many ways, and then killed in the cruelest, most humiliating execution ever designed by man, crucifixion.  I knew all this, but he kept reminding us to say to ourselves that Jesus did all this for me.  Somehow, that night, I saw my selfishness as really evil, my hatred as bad, and realized I needed to be free from my sin.  I did what the coach told us to do, I repented, asked God to forgive me, to make me clean, to become a part of my life, to be my Lord.  I was changed that night.

I taught my first Sunday School/small group in the fall of 1965 and taught or led such a group more or less continually for 50 years.  Over the years I studied the Bible, not as an intellectual exercise, but for growth in my faith in Jesus, as a guide for my life, and as a preparation to teach others.  What is included in this site is the sum of much of what I learned over the years, organized into various studies beginning with the Life of Christ, and, as I am able a study of each book of the Bible, beginning with  the New Testament.  To get to these links, simply click on the three little lines at the top left of a computer or at the bottom on some other devices.

There are also ruminations, explanations, and and doctrinal discussions under the “difficult topics …” tab. These are available to anyone who would find them helpful.  Each study or document is available both in a MS Word format and a PDF format. Use whatever works best on your device. Simply click the link and download what you want.  If you have questions or comments, you can ask and I will do my best to answer them.

Note: These documents are not perfectly formatted or publishable documents. Typographical errors do occur. Every time I look at one I find corrections. As I work through them I seek to make them better but they are for personal study and help with teaching, not for publication.