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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...

God’s Forgiveness – Peter the Apostle

Though Peter sometimes got into trouble with his words (Matthew 16:21-23; Mark 8:31-33), we do find that he had a lot of good things to say very confidently, especially when Jesus asked who His disciples thought he was in Matthew 6:15-17, Mark 8:29, and Luke 9:20. He...

Have You Ever Read It?

A lot of people will bring up things about the Bible that they know or have heard, either to support or to refute something another person is saying. But many have not actually read it. When I was little I knew a lot about what was in the Bible because I'd been taught...

Explaining the Trinity

The title is a misnomer, really. No one can really fully explain the Trinity (tri-unity), the Triune nature of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We have metaphors to help us grasp the concept of one God yet three Persons, but none of them fully explain it...

Introspective Advice

Perusing my notes again, I found some good advice that causes me to look a bit deeper at myself. We all spill out in our lives that with which we are filled. The Bible was not written for you to be happy, it was written for you to  be holy! Who you love reveals your...

Reflecting Radiance

We sometimes refer to the sun and the moon as the "greater light" and the "lesser light" respectively (from Genesis 1:16). Looking at how those lights work is a neat little metaphor for Christian life. The greater light, or the sun, has light in itself. The lesser...

Saved from What?

We often talk about the need to be saved. But why is it a need? I need to be saved? Saved from what? Until you know that you need saving and until you know from what you are being saved, rescue sounds unnecessary and even stupid. Why should someone rescue me when I'm...