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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...

Freedom to Do God’s Work

I was reading a book recently (Assertively Apolitical by Greg Smith), and part of it mentioned freedoms we Christians do or do not have depending on the government. Essentially, a government cannot take away our freedom to do whatever God has commanded us to do. We...

Can’t Have It All

You can't have it all. But that's okay, you don't need it anyway. You don't need to be making more and more and more money to have enough. You don't have to be passing someone to know you're moving and going somewhere. Of all the wealth you can amass in this life, you...

Impactful Memories

I don't know about you, but in my life I have a few significant memories that have impacted me more now that I'm older than they did when I had the experience in the first place. Here are a couple examples. One time, when I was very young, my mom told me to go get...

Keep Praying

Sometimes it takes a long time for a prayer to be answered. But don't stop talking to God about it! Sometimes you may never know if a prayer was answered. But don't stop talking to God about it! In Luke 18:1-7, Jesus tells us to keep praying by telling a story. If an...

Science As God

Lately people are talking on and on about how you need to believe the science. You can't argue with the science. Science knows what it's talking about. Some people even say they believe in science, to the point that they are essentially putting it in the place of God...

Who Do You Love?

Previously I talked about what love is (What Is Love?). With that in mind, let's talk about who we love. The short statement is: We should love everyone because God does and because He told us to. The short explanation of doing that is: Tell people who God is and what...