Posted: January 4, 2024
It’s a new year. And since it is a new year, many of us are inclined to start some new “thing.” It is a good thing—to reach a firm decision about, to change, to declare, to decide, to resolve—to start something good. So, let’s do it! Here we go! 🏃♀️ Let’s all vow together to
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Posted: December 28, 2023
Paul exclaims, “Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!”1 Wait a minute, then. 🤔 If God’s judgments are “unsearchable,” why bother to search for them? If his ways are “inscrutable” are not our scrutable efforts a waste of time? 😟
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Posted: December 21, 2023
God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen Traditional God rest ye merry, gentlemen As I was researching this song, I found a website that I have copied and pasted above, written in green. So, my question for you is this: What’s wrong with this picture? 🤔 It’s the commas. Which way is correct? Does the comma go
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Posted: December 14, 2023
If you want to learn how to be happy, read the first Psalm. Two kinds of people are described: the blessed (happy) righteous people and the wicked people. A blessed (happy) person is one whose “delight is in the law of the Lord.”1 Blessed (happy) people are ones who obey God and whose heart’s desire
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Posted: December 7, 2023
It’s not a straight line, this journey of faith. I wish it were. 😟 I wish that I would always be moving forward and upward and growing stronger and more steadfast. That’s what I wish. But that is not my experience, and I daresay it is probably not yours either. Instead, our successes are often
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Posted: November 30, 2023
Our decision to follow Christ is important. Duh! 😒 Of course, it is. But making that decision is not the thing that changes us. Because, frankly, we can always change our mind. As a matter of fact, many people decide to follow Christ and then later decide not to. It is not a new thing.
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Posted: November 23, 2023
“And be thankful.”1 That’s what Paul writes to the church at Colossae. “Be thankful.” It’s a good thought for us here on this Thanksgiving day. It’s a simple thing to do, right? To “be thankful.” Well . . . it depends. If we look carefully at the context of Paul’s command, what is noted
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Posted: November 16, 2023
We often hear people say, “Our thoughts and prayers are with you,” as if “thoughts” and “prayers” are the same thing. 😕 So, when I hear this popular phrase, I seriously doubt much prayer is going to happen at all because for many people this is just a thing to say. And sadly, when people
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Posted: November 9, 2023
When we find ourselves faced with suffering, i.e. “having what we do not want or wanting what we do not have,”* we experience lonely and painful days. As followers of Christ, we believe in the goodness of God, of course. But those days of suffering often test our faith in that goodness, don’t they? If
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Posted: November 2, 2023
If God is our creator, then does it not make sense that he would know what is best for us? It is quite logical that after Paul writes about how to “discern what is the will of God,”1 he begins his discussion on the body of Christ and its particular needs, because the will of
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