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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 Hug of Thanks

Sometimes when you hear a story many times, it can lose its meaning. Sometimes it can gain more meaning. It seems to depend on how you are receiving it. As I heard the account of Jesus' resurrection over this Easter, I have become even more thankful for it....

“I Love You, Too”

We often say we love God. But we also realize we love Him because He loved us first (1 John 4:19). God was the first one to say "I love you." When God said "I love you," the first time wasn't on the cross with Jesus. That was certainly a huge exclamatory statement,...

Communication Is Key

Communication. The word itself has to do with making common, sharing, or dividing out. It has to do with joining or participating. It is something done between people, not just by one person. The more I experience life and interact with others, the more I realize how...

A Little Bit on Praying

So I asked God to show me some things about prayer. Last night in the sermon I got something that crept up on me like a gentle breeze in the grass and then hit me like a tidal wave. Let me put some context around it. In the Bible when Jesus prayed "not my will but...

You Are What You Eat

As I was reading a devotional (The One Year "Hearing His Voice" Devotional by Chris Tiegreen), I came across words that sparked me to start writing this post. The scripture reference was from Ezekiel when God told Ezekiel to eat the scroll. God wants us to ingest His...

In Order of Difficulty

When I was a kid I learned all kinds of math. The older I got the harder the math became. Sometimes with other things I could get the hard stuff out of the way first and then do the easy stuff, so I wished that with math I could do the hard stuff first so that it got...