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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...

Looming Threats and Christ’s Love

Last night I was thinking of some recent threats with global and personal implications. If worse comes to worst, what will we all do? But I was also reciting some memory verses: Romans 8:28-39. In verse 35 Paul almost rhetorically asks what could possibly separate us...

Sore Muscles

Sometimes after you have a good workout or even just some good physical exertion, you get sore muscles the next couple days. It makes you not want to move around much, but moving around is exactly what will help you feel better! Keeping the blood flowing and the...

What the Heart Wants

I've heard it said that the heart wants what the heart wants. Some use it as an excuse for their emotions and the actions they take because of what they want. But just because the heart wants what it wants doesn't mean that the heart is right, and even people who use...

A Few Notes on Joy

I've heard joy defined as, "The happy state that results from knowing and serving God, and it is the fruit of a right relationship with Him." Joy is not just about feelings, so do not limit it to such. While feelings are certainly involved, those are not all joy is....

God’s Speed Dial

I could talk about how we can have God on "speed dial," since He's always accessible through prayer. But I'm going to talk about God having us on speed dial. In church yesterday we talked about the conversion of Saul in Acts 9. When God called Ananias's name, Ananias...

Left Instructions

This morning my mom has left me instructions about taking out a roast and starting gravy and potatoes while she's doing something else. When sitting to write this blog, that made me think of the instructions God left for us. We have the Bible. When Jesus left, He gave...