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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...

God’s Correction and Love

In Ezekiel chapters 8 and 9, we see that the sin of God's people is so great that God must correct and discipline them, and not spare. It has gone on long enough. And God started at His house (9:6). In Jeremiah and Lamentations, we again see God's harsher corrective...

Changing People

You can't change people. That's easy to say, but we still go around acting like we can change others. We may have the best of intentions, but if a person doesn't want to change, nothing we do will help. Others have a free will just like I do. God can change people....

Some Notes

I was looking through some old notes yet again and wanted to share a few. You may reach far, but you will never reach your full potential until you give God your life and let Him lead. You can worship God anywhere, pray to Him anywhere, and read your Bible anywhere,...

Food and Focus

Sometimes during the day I'll notice I'm tired, or that I can't quite focus on a task. Then I realize I'm actually hungry, so I eat something. After that I feel energized and I am more able to focus. Prayer and Bible reading work the same way. Sometimes I'll notice I...

Perspective on the Unknown

Ah, the unknown. We can get excited about it and look forward to new possibilities! But when we don't know for sure if something is going to be good or be bad, we can also get defensive,  avoidant, or even outright hostile to moving beyond what we know. The unknown...

Why Doesn’t God Just Show Himself?

I've heard people ask why God doesn't just show Himself so people will believe in Him. Well He has, we just won't look. Let me set up a few things first. One, God is so other from us and so glorious and holy, that to reveal Himself to us just as He is would be deadly...