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In Court and On Trial

A few days ago someone was talking about how God is the judge in the courtroom of life, and we can try to put Him on trial as if we're the judge, but we can't do that because we're not the judge. Then I started thinking about what it looks like when people try to...

A Summary Look Back Before Going Forward

I've been in Deuteronomy in my daily Bible reading lately. Here Moses is giving the children of Israel a summary of what's happened to them since they left Egypt (Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers) before they head into the Promised Land. He's reminding them of the...

Heaping Coals of Fire

In Romans 12:20, we see the apostle Paul referencing Proverbs 25:21-22. In a modern Western way of thinking, the term "heap coals of fire on his head" gives me the idea that I'm exacting some type of vengeance or convicting with shame by being kind to people I don't...

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...

It’s the Little Things

The longer I live, the more I realize that a big situation is quite frequently affected by all the smaller ones that went into it. A few negative examples: A building decays a little at a time, with a crack here, a loose brick there, a tree root slowly working it's...

A Couple Things on Obedience

In church last night we talked about obedience, and these are a couple things I wrote down: You have to know the rules to obey them. If I don't know the speed limit, I can't adjust my speed for it. I can make an assumption based on what I've experienced on other...