Select Page

Blog

Glory, Irony, and a Crying Savior

I'm late to write this blog, but this time it feels like more of a good thing than usual because I have some things to share from the sermon tonight that I might not have shared this soon otherwise. We were in Mark 15:15-32. The crucifixion of Christ has some glorious...

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...

Thoughts and Reasoning

God gave us the ability to think and to reason. At the same time, we can only think and reason so far, and only based on what we know. We are limited as to how far we can apply thought and reasoning. God, on the other hand, has no such limitations, knowing everything...

Prospered for Giving

"God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving." - Randy Alcorn This quote is what sparked the post for today. We Christians often forget that we're stewards of God's resources, and He's the one who gets to tell us how to use...

Peace on Earth

Recently the poem "Christmas Bells" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has been on my mind. When he wrote the poem he had a lot going on in his life. Go look it up real quick, it's worth the read and the research details behind it. In short, Mr. Longfellow was having a...

A Hilarious Giver

In yesterday morning's sermon we walked through 2 Corinthians 9 and talked about giving. As for the title of the blog, God loves a hilarious giver. In 2 Corinthians 9:7, the word for cheerful is "hilaros," from which we get our English word "hilarious." Think about...

The Ageless One with an Age

It's time for Christmas lessons at church for the little kids! I was teaching them last night about Jesus coming to earth to save us from our sins. In order to do so, Jesus had to become like us while still being God. In Heaven Jesus could do anything He wanted, but...

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...