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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...

Unseen Injuries

After a physical injury heals, if it was bad enough sometimes you can still feel it. It may have healed just fine and be fully functional again, but on certain days or depending on how you've moved around, it just doesn't feel quite like it used to. This happens with...

Notes on Obedience

To obey is better than sacrifice. You might not always know why you are given an instruction until after you obey it. You don't have to understand why you're doing something to obey the instruction. It is important to know who you're obeying. It is important to know...

The Cause or the Blame?

The man preaching yesterday morning preached on properly responding to tribulation and trouble in life. He had been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer last year, even though he'd never had a lifestyle or been in an environment that would have caused it. This is the...

Live and Let Live

I have found that "live and let live" is something that requires a balance, depending on how you mean the term. I don't think one should just live and let live in the sense of never getting involved in anything and never making a difference. As a follower of Jesus, I...

Far or Near

I've found that the farther something is from you, physically or otherwise, the less it feels like it affects you. If it affects you at all, it can be quite minimal. This makes us prone to care less, and can even lean us towards apathy. But just because I don't feel...

A Reminder about Rules

We humans sometimes make arbitrary rules made to restrict a specific person or group of people just because we disagree with them. Sometimes we make those rules so we or a specific group can get away with something. We sometimes make bad rules for the same reasons....