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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...

Cheating on God

Salvation is sometimes compared to marriage. Upon getting saved, you are unified with Christ and are for Him only. We are to give up the attachments we have had to sin and the sinful things of the world, committing ourselves instead to God. He will never leave us,...

The Children of Israel Leaving Egypt with Riches

So I've known for a long time that when the Israelites left Egypt, as told in Exodus, the Egyptians gave them stuff (Exodus 11:2-3 and 12:35-36). A lot of stuff. All kinds of stuff. When the Children of Israel left Egypt, they were loaded and laden with riches. I...

The Miracle of Forgiveness

I've been teaching the Sunday School kids about when Jesus forgave and healed a paralytic man whose friends let him down through a roof (Mark 2:1-12). Jesus first told the man his sins were forgiven. Then to prove that He was God and could forgive sins, He did a more...

Studying On Your Own

Going to church to learn the Bible is something we're all supposed to do. Studying the Bible in groups outside of church attendance is good to do. But sometimes we forget the we need to do some studying on our own, too. If the Bible is our spiritual food, then we...

Important Parts

I'm one of the actors in an upcoming church play. The play presents the Gospel through a slice of life and its troubles. I don't have a main part and I'm not the one who says the most important pieces of the play, but my part is still there on purpose. Whether a main...

Jesus Knows Your Business

Looking through some old notes, I found this one: Jesus knows more about your profession than you do. Jesus is God, and since God knows everything, so does Jesus. The Holy Spirit is also God, and He is within me, so that reinforces to me just how well God knows things...