Select Page

Blog

Choosing Between Good Things

I have things to plan and work for regarding the future, and to do so I must figure out what things to give up in the present, if only temporarily. I don't want to give things up. I feel like I shouldn't give up some of them. But I do need to at least consider doing...

Summarized Bible References to Get You Curious

Robust 80-year-old man claims mountain inheritance promised to him 40 years before. (Joshua 14:6-15) Two men get too big for their respective britches. One flees from the other in battle, the other dies after a very strong woman tosses a millstone on his head. (Judges...

Just Wondering

I have things about the Bible that I wonder sometimes. They're not doctrinally important so the Bible doesn't give answers, so I just wonder for fun. If you're curious, here are a few. In the book of Ruth, was Ruth's and Boaz's relationship as romantic as my 21st...

A Few More Reminders

Sometimes we get so caught up in wanting to hear commands directly from God's voice that we forget about or ignore the marching orders He's already written for us. Holiness isn't just acting a certain way as if just the doing of a thing makes you holy, holiness is...

Hypothetical Questions

Asking hypothetical questions can be a good way to think something out. Got something you're afraid will happen? Talk out that hypothetical with someone and get a grasp on your fear; it might help you overcome that fear. Got something you wonder about but probably...

Just a Little Advice

We don't ever really know if we have more tomorrows than yesterdays, or even if we have more yesterdays than tomorrows. We should not expect God to do supernaturally what we can do naturally. We should just get up and do it! Maybe your relationship with God isn't all...

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...