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Notes on Suffering
Many times you will not truly know and see just how good God is until you suffer. There is no amount of suffering that can exhaust God's grace, mercy, and glory. We are promised the storm. Sometimes following Christ will bring suffering - not merely inconvenience, but...
Daily Bible Reading
I highly recommend reading the Bible every day. Whether you want to focus on a portion of it for a week or a month, focus on parts to memorize, or read the whole thing through in a year, reading it every day really gives you a better sense of what's in it. Being...
Church as the Body of Christ
In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul compares local church to a body that acts like an extension of Jesus as it does Jesus' will in the world around it. Sometimes we Christians get so used to this idea that it becomes like a display piece we walk by so much that we stop noticing...
Guarding and Keeping Your Heart
In Proverbs 4:23 we are told how important it is to keep or guard our hearts. I decided to look at the original Hebrew meaning for some of the words. (For this post I'm reading KJV, but I see no reason not to use a different translation. Since we're looking at the...
The Right Thing
Doing what you need to do and doing what's right should be the same thing. You don't have to prove someone else wrong to do what you know is right. Sometimes the question isn't, "What is the good thing?" but, "What is the best thing?" Sometimes we have to choose among...
God’s Vastness
Often when I watch a documentary on outer space or see a planetarium presentation, I feel incredibly small and insignificant. The universe is just so vast! Everything is zipping around at high speeds, sometimes around other things, following other things, or running...