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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...

Justice and Injustice

Justice was slapped in the face so that we could have grace. In the sermon yesterday morning, the pastor focused on the unjust mock trial of Jesus in John 18. Not only did it break several laws for having a trial, it wasn't even a trial in the first place. None of it...

Thankful Attitude

It is important to exercise your thankfulness muscles daily. Not only is thankfulness commanded and appropriate (Psalm 136; 1 Thessalonians 5:18), taking some time every day to thank God and others makes you healthier all around. It gets your mind into a habit of...

Friendship with God

This is a bit connected to God's Feelings. God wants to have a relationship with us. God wants to be more than just our King and our Father, He wants to be our Friend. You spend time with a friend and get to know them, and they do the same with you. It goes both ways....

Thankful for Salvation

As I was praying in bed this morning, I was taking a little more time to thank God than usual. I thanked Him for everything that came to mind, big things and little things. As I prayed I realized that all the things I was thanking Him for were things that I don't...

God’s Feelings

In The One Year Hearing His Voice Devotional by Chris Tiegreen, I read the other day about our feelings connecting us with God. The Sunday School lesson yesterday added to what I'd found. God is not a detached, impassive being. He has emotions and feelings, and gave...

Trusting God with Others

In the sermon last Sunday evening one of our young men preached. He talked about when God told Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac (Genesis 22:1-18), and how Abraham had to trust God not with his own life this time, but with his son's life. He pointed out that parents...