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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...

God’s Love and Mothers

We Christians talk a lot about how a good father shows us what God's love is like, but often we don't talk about how good mothers show us God's love in ways just as important. Mothers take great pains and go to great lengths to protect their children, often putting...

Vessels for Honor and Dishonor

Earlier this week, I was listening while some friends talked about vessels for honor and vessels for dishonor from Romans 9:21. In the verses around this one, Paul writes about how God is in control of the vessels. God is the potter who makes the vessels, so He can...

A Little Something on Death

I was thinking lately about my grandma's death years ago. I miss her, but I'm not too sad because I know where she went and that I'll get there later. I then thought of being a kid at our church's Missions Conference when my parents would take separate cars. I and my...

A Few Points About the Resurrection

We can still talk about Easter even though it's over. Jesus' resurrection is always relevant. I found some notes I have on the resurrection and started thinking about a few things. If God was not satisfied with the death and shed blood of Jesus, He would not have...

Different Temptations

It may surprise you to know that some people are not tempted by the things you are. It may surprise you to know that some people are tempted by things that you are not. Things that trip you up may have no bearing on someone else. Things that trip someone else up may...

June Bug Life

My brother, youngest sister, and I were out in the car last night talking. We happened to see a June bug and someone brought up that while in the Bible humans are sometimes compared to sheep, other times we could also be compared to June bugs. It sounds a little...