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A Bit on Biblical Context and My Opinions and Choices

Each verse in the Bible has a greater context around it. Each chapter in the Bible has a greater context around it. Each book in the Bible has a greater context around it. If you don't take the whole context into context, you're very likely to miss important truths...

Alabaster and Spikenard

In Mark 14:3-9, we see a woman displaying an act of full and pure devotion for Jesus. I'm quite familiar with this account, but recently in church I learned more details about why this was such a big deal. I did a little Internet searching on my own and learned a few...

Advice from Pastors

I've gone through some older notes I've kept from sermons years ago. I've chosen a few phrases for some helpful advice. You're not special, you're unique. Unity in church comes when we stop thinking of ourselves as special and start thinking of ourselves as being...

Have Faith and Prosper

I would like to talk about what it really means to prosper with your faith. Rarely does it ever mean physical gain. It always has to do with spiritual gain, but hardly ever physical gain. Having faith does not guarantee physical wealth and health. Quite often, having...

Knowing and Knowing

Knowing about someone and knowing who they are, those are two different things. I can know a lot about a celebrity, but without being friends with them I won't really know them like I know other people around me. I can know someone's favorite color, shoe size, food...

Volition and Personal Responsibility

We often look to blame others for the things that happen to us. Things can't ever be our fault. But whatever part others have played in our situation, we cannot absolve ourselves of personal responsibility for the part we have played in it, and the part we can still...

Secular or Sacred?

We Christians often divide things in life based on whether they are worldly or whether they are spiritual, calling them secular and sacred respectively. Sometimes we refer to the work we do as either secular or sacred. But sometimes there is no difference between the...

“Come As You Are”

I was thinking about how we come to Jesus to get saved. We come as we are, but also we can't be accepted as we are. I'll explain. We humans are sinful by our very nature (Psalm 14:1-3; Romans 3:10-12), and we do not meet the requirement of perfection to be in the...

The Master, His Servants, and the Washing of Feet

While visiting my sister this past weekend, I got to hear someone different preach. He preached about the time when Jesus washed His disciples' feet in John 13:1-17, and a few specific things stood out to me. In verses 3-5, the pastor pointed out that we see the God...