Insights into God’s revealed truth.
It’s not my intention to belittle my brothers and sisters in Christ that think we are still under obligation to observe the Sabbath. Still, I feel the need to defend the stance of those of us who don’t hold to this doctrine. I hope we can disagree amicably. There is something lost, I think,…
If you think that the Bible was saying that a snake can talk all on it’s own you don’t have all the facts.
What Is My Purpose Now? To lay some ground work first, I will begin with what it isn’t. Nabeel Quereshi said he was told by God, after he had been mourning from losing the closeness of his loving family and his close friend, “This life is not about You”. That struck home to me. I…
I grew up in simple times. When fear was of big dogs, spiders or of making Daddy mad because you misbehaved. When grown-ups could be trusted, and when there was a neighborhood store to supply your basic needs..
Someone once commented to me that there are an awful lot of bible translations. I don’t know for sure, but what they said had the tone of someone who had thrown up their hands in the belief that no one can know what the truth is. While there are some challenges to understanding…
It’s amazing what you can find out about people. What makes them laugh, their struggles, what qualifies as a good day and so on. And it makes you glad when the get the new car they like, when they have pleasant surprises, when they find a reason to hope, when the the doctor says the babies are doing great. Sometimes though you find out how different they are from you. What they’re thinking and believe can surprise you.
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” Sometimes it felt like I was a mile high (which of course I wasn’t). When I pushed myself to climb near the top where the tree would sway back and forth and fear was real; I would pat myself on the back for daring so much. I guess I was looking for the limits…
There were maybe a dozen–a few more, a few less— it’s hard to remember sometimes. The kids my wife and I gathered in our small church, ranged in ages from about five to fourteen. A mix of lively boys and girls, wound up and ready to have fun. Our hope was to introduce their young…
“I don’t think his son realized where daddy had gone at first, but when he did, playtime seemed much less important to him than getting daddy’s attention, and he began to call. He was relentless as a beagle on the trail of a rabbit after that.” Come Down January 3, 2004 He was happy…
