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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...

The Process of Sanctification

To sanctify means to set something apart for sacred use. It becomes set aside for holy use, therefore it becomes holy itself. When you get saved, you are considered forgiven of all sin and you are sanctified before God, and then you must become what you are. Though...

The Inspiring God

Sometimes we can be in such awe of God and of what He's done that we get inspired to make something to express praise for it. We make paintings, stories, poems, music, and many other varying forms of art. We want to express our praise to God as well as have other...

Daniel’s Praying

In the book of Daniel, we see Daniel himself doing a lot of praying. It's a habit he cultivated regularly, as well as an immediate, automatic response to trouble. When one of the rulers Daniel served under had a nightmare of a vision and ordered all the wise men...

Sword Fighting

In Ephesians 6:10-18, Paul wrote about the armor of God. Included in that set of armor is a sword, and that sword is the Word of God. Some of you know I like swords and sword-fighting, even though I don't get to do much fighting. I don't know anywhere near as much...

Death and Sleep

In the sermon yesterday morning we were in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. Given some beliefs at the time that death meant you ceased to exist, the Thessalonian church members wanted to know if the loved ones that had already passed on had any hope of Heaven and the rapture...

God’s Creativity – Horses

I've written a little bit about God's creativity before (God's Creativity - Fun Facts), and thought I'd talk about something specific this time, horse leg and foot anatomy. Horses are fairly muscular, powerful creatures, but those proportionately hefty bodies are...