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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...
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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...
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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...
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Easter Monday

Now that Easter Sunday is over, a lot of people are going right back to their lives as if Jesus never resurrected. Even some Christians are doing it! We have a tendency to celebrate Jesus' resurrection and get over it sometimes, feeling revived on Sunday but feeling...

Jonathan’s Character

I've been reading in the book of 1 Samuel, and I've been at the point of Saul's reign as the first king of Israel. I've been reading a different translation than usual, which has been making me take a new look at passages I've known my whole life. For example...

Children’s Hosanna

Yesterday was Palm Sunday, the one where we talk about Jesus' Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem on a donkey, with people waving palm branches and shouting, "Hosanna!" When Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, it meant He came in peace. Kings rode on stallions in...

Notes Again

Once again I'm sharing some notes I've collected. Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the apples in a seed. Why do we expect God to move for us when we won't lift a hand for Him? If anything in life turns someone from the Lord, we shouldn't...

Doing What You Feel Is Right

I'm still reading in the book of Judges, and today I was in chapters 17-18. Several places in Judges it points out that people did whatever they felt was right. At times it goes on to paint a picture of what that looked like, and in chapters 17-18 we see just how bad...

A Little Extra Encouragement

I was doing my Bible reading in the book of Judges today, and read about Gideon (Judges 6-7). I've noticed before that God gives Gideon a lot of encouragement and affirmation, and thought I'd talk about it. When God first calls Gideon to deliver the Israelites from...