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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...

Growing in Bible Study

The Bible is filled with important lessons. When we teach them to children, we often only tell the stories, or simplify things into a version they can understand. Sometimes we pare things down for very young children who can't understand larger themes yet. Even for...

In Jesus’ Name

When you do something in someone's name, you are doing it on their behalf, with their authority, as if you are that person. So people will rightly assume that you have permission or orders to do this thing, whether you actually do or not. If you are a Christian, you...

Divine Tempo

Yesterday I was listening to my dad teach Sunday School. One of the things that stuck out was getting on God's timetable. God doesn't view or do time like we do. He invented it and sees it all at once, so while we're sitting here in a hurry wishing God would do or say...

Contrasts of Life

Sometimes in life we don't notice good things as much until there's something different, something bad, or something wrong. Not that we don't notice good things at all, it's just sometimes they are highlighted when something around us is not going well. Light is more...

Kind Words

I recently came across a note a friend wrote to me earlier this year. It felt good to read the words again, and today I started thinking about how good kind words can make you feel. It doesn't take a lot of words either. Just a couple words of kindness feel quite...

A Bit on Give and Take

Sometimes when I think of give and take in a relationship, I think more of the giving part. But sometimes I do need to take, and I don't always want to. Something about it feels like I'm stealing or being needy, but neither of those is true. Just like I would give to...