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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...

Taking the Bible for Granted

I was thinking yesterday and realized that sometimes I take my Bible knowledge for granted. I grew up in a Christ-believing home, we go to church all the time, and my parents taught me and my siblings the Bible at home, not just leaving it up to church, so I have a...

Serving God

I found some sermon notes again, these ones asking pointed questions and giving pointed answers. Why do I serve God? Is it out of habit? Home pressure or influence? Business or social connections? An actual desire to express my love for what God has done? What is the...

Becoming a Human

When I think about Jesus coming to earth as a baby, sometimes I wonder what it must have felt like to be so limited, so utterly restricted. The Son of God, God Himself, stripping off much of His power and limiting Himself to the confines of humanity, and an infant at...

Detailing the Heart and Mind

If you've never watched someone deep clean and detail a car inside and out, you might want to take a look. If you find someone good, they clean things you didn't know could be cleaned. They take things apart and out that I didn't know could come apart or out. Some of...

Life and Musical Instruments

Life can be like a band or an orchestra: there are a lot of different people with different things they are meant to do, they each have a different way in which they must do it, and it all interconnects in a special way. A piano is not played the same way as a...

Consider Those Around You

While we should remember to consider others year-round, it can be especially helpful to remember around the holidays. We can get a little too wrapped up in what we need to do for ourselves and our loved ones, and we forget that other people are people, too. The...