From Questions, Two Applications
Did you grow up with book of Proverbs as a usual part of your biblical diet? Some kids have much time spent in the Proverbs while others not as much? Over the centuries much of Christianity has placed a huge emphasis on children hearing the Proverbs from an early age. . But why the emphasis …
If you read my last post you might have had a few questions. For one...if you wondered about my marriage to Hannah...we are good...loving each other...gladly welcoming a baby into the world...literally at any minute (I simply wanted a provocative title). As for other questions, maybe you wondered about why we obey the fourth command …
Of late my mind has begun to contemplate if I should have gotten married. First, marriage is an example, shadow, a kind of display of the true Marriage between Jesus and his Church. Second, I am a Christian. I am a part of that relationship. Maybe I should not have gotten married. Was marriage just …
I recently read over a poem that described the pursuit of God in the scripture. It begins: Everyday I have one goalTo convince myself that there's one LordIt's not me or the things that I long forBut the world that awaits on the other side of the doorKevin Burgess Ok...the wording may seem a little …
Last week I preached my first sermon on the Third Commandment within our series on the Exodus 20. Our texts were Exodus 20:7 & Leviticus 18:21. The passage in Leviticus explains how child sacrifice is a breaking of the Third Command. My goal was to assist our church in thinking biblically about abortion in light …
"Oh, how I love your instructions! I think about them all day long.Psalm 119:97 (NLT) Do you feel as David did about God's instruction (torah -Law)? Do you want that sentiment to be more regular...more normative from day-to-day? We can have great hope that God will build and mold such love in us...we truly have …
Many times in the evenings Hannah and I will sit in two easy chairs to wrap up the day. She quite regularly says: "Random thought" or "Random question". Sometimes she does that 2...3...or 4 times...just to get parts of her day processed and off her mind or chest. I too have had some "random thoughts" …
We generally tend toward extremes. In our day it is very much seen and felt...everything is polarized. If you believe "A" then you most certainly believe "B" and "C"...yet the person who admittedly believes "A" but not necessarily "B" or "C" says of the person who believes "X" that they also hold to "Y" and …
What does God want us to learn from the first chapter of the Bible? If I were to answer that question based on what I've heard collectively and frequently I would say it was God giving an argument against Charles Darwin and his theory of Evolution. True enough there is a place for Genesis 1 …
I grew up in the deep south (Mississippi [I try to pronounce all four S's but its still a challenge], Georgia [not George, IA where I currently live], and Florida [the panhandle that is]). So you get the picture...the south is in my cultural veins. I grew up as a pastors kid...my Dad is an …
The Reforming Raker 