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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...

A Heavenly, “Oh!”

There are a lot of things about and in the Bible we don't understand. God didn't give us exact and precise details, but He did tell us all we need to know. That doesn't stop us from being curious and forming ideas, like how it looked when God created the world and...

What Does That Mean?

Sometimes a part of the Bible isn't going to make sense to you. You'll read it over and it will still seem a little odd. Try reading the verses around it to get context, look up the original language, and do some cultural and historical study. Taking something out of...

Life Is Like…

Life is like practicing an instrument; you're only going to get better if you keep at it, and sometimes you have to go over the basics more than you'd like so you can be good at what's more advanced. Life is like a quadratic equation; not everyone knows how to do it...

Beautiful Pictures

When God made the world He made it to include pictures for us. God made metaphors, parallels, little pieces of things for us to understand more about who He is. Take marriage, family, and authority for example. He invented each of these, and they are all...

Marks of Wisdom

What does godly wisdom look like? How do you know someone is wise in this way? What is wisdom in the first place? Where did it come from? We'll start by looking at the place from whence we find wisdom. Looking at Job 28:12-28, we find that wisdom comes from God. In...

Notebook Perusing

I decided to look in one of my old notebooks again. I don't quite remember when I picked up the habit, but I keep a notebook or something with me at all times to write important, profound, and/or funny things that I hear or see. Jesus is always as close as the mention...