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God’s Revealed and Specific Will
I'm going to talk about two kinds of God's will: God's general or revealed will, and God's specific will. God's general or revealed will is what He's laid out in the Bible for everyone to see, hear, and know. God's specific will is what He lets each believer know...
Looking Back on and Forward to God’s Goodness
My life has changed quite a bit in the past month or so, and I'm making some decisions about where to go from here. While I have some ideas in place, we'll see what direction God takes me. As I've been thinking about what to do next, God has made sure to keep me...
Well-Known
God knows me better than I do. God knows what's on my mind at any given time, even when I'm not paying attention, and even when I refuse to pay attention because I don't want to have to think about something. But whether I'm struggling or whether I've got smooth...
How to Study the Bible
If you'd like to study the Bible but you aren't sure where to start, let me give you some pointers. If you already study the Bible and you do know where to start, I'd like to give you some reminders. Read it. You can't properly study a book you haven't read. I would...
Advice and Notes for New Year
It's been a year; how have we spent it? What are we going to improve on next year, and what will we keep the same? As we go into this next year, I'd like to remind us of a few things. God's idea is always better than yours. You have never met anyone that isn't...
All or Nothing
Getting saved, believing in Jesus' work in His birth, life, death, burial, and resurrection, isn't adding Jesus to your life, it is forsaking and turning away from all that keeps you back from following Jesus. You don't build Jesus into your life, you build your life...