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A Choice for Now

In my last post, Choosing Between Good Things, I mentioned I might have to put my blog on hiatus. I've decided that instead of a full stop, I'm going to post on it when I can instead of posting regularly. As for a few other choices going on in life, I've got those...

Choosing Between Good Things

I have things to plan and work for regarding the future, and to do so I must figure out what things to give up in the present, if only temporarily. I don't want to give things up. I feel like I shouldn't give up some of them. But I do need to at least consider doing...

Summarized Bible References to Get You Curious

Robust 80-year-old man claims mountain inheritance promised to him 40 years before. (Joshua 14:6-15) Two men get too big for their respective britches. One flees from the other in battle, the other dies after a very strong woman tosses a millstone on his head. (Judges...

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...

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...