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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...
The Tugging of Your Faith
Yesterday morning at church we had another pastor speaking for us. He was teaching from Hebrews 11 about Abraham and faith. He talked about how people of faith embrace God's promises (Hebrews 11:13). He told us the Greek for "embrace" there means a "squeeze the...
Bad News Before the Good News
Sometimes in order for you to understand why something is good news, you need to understand the bad news. Sometimes people, even including Christians, don't fully realize why the Gospel is literally The Good News. Your sin offends God. That is what you need to realize...
Prayer
One of the topics of the sermon yesterday was Jesus teaching His disciples how to pray (Luke 11:1-4). This got me thinking about prayer and how many of us aren't nearly as good at it as we should be. We don't pray enough. Sometimes we don't even have the right idea of...