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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...

More to Life, Part 3

(Previously: More to Life, Part 2) For all the evidence we can see about God, we can actually use it to say whatever we want, even denying God's existence and replacing God with ourselves. We can say there is no God. There is no God so everything is really up to us....

More to Life, Part 2

(Previously: More to Life, Part 1) Why do humans lose hope and consider suicide when we feel we have no purpose? Why does it bother us to see injustice, and how do we even know what that is and to be bothered by it in the first place? Why do we have concepts of...

More to Life, Part 1

Sometimes I think about how I would think and behave if I thought I was here by accident, without purpose. If I don't have a Creator and life just happened by accident, then I don't have a higher purpose. If it's all an accident, then there is literally no reason for...

Fun Facts for the Fourth

Independence Day is celebrated on July 4th. Though the Continental Congress had voted to declare independence from the monarch of Britain on July 2nd, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was not fully revised and declared until the fourth. The United States of...

Pray for Your Leaders

With U.S. Independence Day coming up, I started thinking about national leaders and how hard it is to lead a country. While there are some leaders who don’t lead and just do what they want, don’t forget that there are always leaders who care about their people. In...

“Do You Have Any Questions?”

When teaching the little kids at church, I've started asking them if they have any questions after a lesson. Typically they don't, or at least not questions that have to do with the lesson, but sometimes kids come up with really great questions that you need to think...