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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...
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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...
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The Resurrection of Lazarus

In John 11:1-45, we see a story that I've heard so many times that I run the risk of being over-familiar with it. But while thinking about it over the past few days, I've wondered what it must have been like to see it. I read it again, spending some time on it....
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More Soap Opera in the Bible

For the first "episode" I wrote about, see Soap Opera in the Bible. In this one today, we're in 1 Samuel 25. In context, David had been running away from Saul, who had been trying to kill David out of fear and jealousy. While traveling around in hiding, some men ended...

Bible Heroes, Bible Failures

A lot of the time we Christians like to talk about the heroes of our faith in the Bible. But really, the Bible isn't a book full of moral heroes, it's a book full of moral failures. It's a book full of moral failures and how God worked on them, with them, and through...

Letting Out Your Emotions

Sometimes your emotions can be like keeping animals; you need to let them out sometimes. This goes for all emotions, be they positive or negative. If you keep them all inside in a confined space, they'll start fighting each other and they'll start fighting you so they...

Being There and Feeling with Others

Sometimes when someone around us is really happy, it makes us happy. When someone has good news to share, we like to share in the happiness that this news brings. We like to be there for and support our loved ones, whether they be friends or family. Sometimes when...

A Prophetess, a Commander, and a Hardcore Woman

Lately I thought of some of the happenings in the book of Judges, specifically around the period and area of Deborah the prophetess and Barak the commander (Judges 4 and 5). In this account, the Israelites have yet again done evil, right in front of the God who spent...

Making Time

Sometimes when changes happen in your life, the things you normally do might slip through the cracks. My blog has been slipping through cracks lately, but I'm going to figure out how to keep going on a regular schedule (even if it's modified) because it's important to...