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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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Too Familiar

Sometimes we Christians who grew up in church get too familiar with our little Christianese phrases. I've heard some people say we get inoculated to them. We hear certain words and terms so often that they stop meaning anything, assuming we truly understood what they...

Good, Better, and Best

There are many choices in life between good, better, and best. Sometimes we have a good idea or plan, but there is a better one. Sometimes there is a course of action that isn't just better, it is literally and objectively the best one to take. It takes discernment to...

Carrying Burdens

In Galatians 6:2 we see that we Christians in churches should bear one another's burdens. But sometimes we don't let others help us carry our burdens, sometimes we have a bad habit of carrying burdens we were never meant to carry on our own, and sometimes we are...

A Modern Metaphor

Today was the first day of Vacation Bible School at my church. Our first lesson was on truth coming from God. We learned about Adam and Eve (Genesis 2-3), the truth God told them, and the lie Satan told them. At our last class gathering before the full assembly, we...

Kitchen Metaphors

When you go to bake something, you must pre-heat the oven first. Sometimes things in life start heating up, and the cookies or the turkey will go in soon, but after a while it will all have been worth the heat! If you read the recipe through all the way before you...

Let’s (Not) Get Political

Lately I've been seeing something among United States/American Christians that has been frustrating me, and I think I should talk about it: We have Americanized our Christianity. While many of us will say that we know our allegiance to God is more important than our...