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A Bit on Biblical Context and My Opinions and Choices

Each verse in the Bible has a greater context around it. Each chapter in the Bible has a greater context around it. Each book in the Bible has a greater context around it. If you don't take the whole context into context, you're very likely to miss important truths...

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...

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...

Working on Running

Christians are called to run a specific race of life, to strive for and towards the will of God and His goals for our lives (see Hebrews 12), and it is no short sprint, it is a distance run. This requires specific endurance and discipline, and those things need to be...

What Is That Smell?

There are certain smells that are very distinct, and even if you can't see the source of one, you know what it is. Say it's a skunk, a rose, a water treatment plant, a batch of cookies. You enjoy or are disgusted by each unique scent depending on which scent it is....

Control Tower of the Mind

Generally speaking (though I am aware of exceptions), your body is subject to your mind. Whatever you will your body to do with your brain is what it does. You don't accidentally pour yourself a bowl of cereal, you don't accidentally yell at someone, and you don't...

Exploring Through Stories

Sometimes by reading, watching, playing in, or writing a story, you get to explore something you otherwise wouldn't have experienced. Sometimes you wouldn't want to experience it yourself, but you still learn something from having seen and heard it. You might start...

A Bit on Pleasing and Serving God

If you are pleasing God, it doesn't matter who else you please. If you are not pleasing God, it still doesn't matter who else you please. Serving God is never part time, it is a full commitment. Since Jesus is Lord, we should act like it.

If God Is Good, Then Why Is There Evil?

This is a loaded question, and one that requires more than a single blog post to explain, but I'll give you a basic explanation. I'm going to start by saying that sometimes when people ask this question or a variation of it, they don't always want the answer or...