From Questions, Two Applications
We were driving home after our usual Monday morning, Daddy-Daughter coffee date (when I study for the next Sunday and Jáel does her reading apps on the iPad). Then what seemed out of no where came the comment from the four-year-old in the back seat: "Hey Dad, I want to race Jesus in the garden!!!"-Jael …
Until my dying day I will remember the first time I watched Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (if you are not familiar with LOTR that is the first of a trilogy). There I was in our living room. My friend Jake was over and we anxiously watched Frodo and Sam walk …
Not too many people can say they have never misrepresented a person or an idea. We get misinformation from someone and pass it on. Or we read a news heading on Twitter. We misunderstand a persons statements...and the list goes on and on of how an idea or event can be misrepresented. This often happens …
"But Dad, it's not my favorite!" This is the daily declaration my three-year-old makes when she doesn't want to eat lunch or do as she has been told: "It's not my favorite." Hannah and I have tried to explain to her that we often, more often than not, "do" things we'd rather not do. It …
In parts of the world today, and much of the ancient, during harvest wheat farmers pile up what was gathered. They would then throw it into the air where the wind would carry away the chaff (husk like material). The wheat would fall back down. After a long process the pile would be left with …
It has been said that the 1,000 year reign as spoken of in Revelation 20, and commonly called The Millennium, is a thousand years of peace that everyone loves to argue about. And oh isn't that true. Christians of the West not only like to argue about it but do so often and in groups. …
What is your favorite candy? How about favorite place to go...or favorite music? (A. Moser Roth Dark Chocolate; B. Philips Ave. Sioux Falls; C. Hymns done in a Celtic style...one of my favorite music forms anyway) So what are yours? Now whatever it is I am sure of one thing regarding what you picked...if you …
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Will this world be destroyed and replaced or renovated when Jesus returns? Will God bring out an angelic 'Death Star' and zap earth in order to create a completely different planet? For the moment I will say I believe that this world will be renovated not replaced. I will explain in greater detail in a …
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I seldom flip open my computer after midnight to write and publish in the same sitting. However, when those occasions come where something is pressing on my mind I role with it. This post is really the convergence of two things in my life at the moment: If you have been tracking with this blog …
I wear glasses. Each eye needs a different prescription. Each eye as it looks through the lens has a slightly different perspective, yet together they give me a full and clear picture. I am stronger and better because the two work together. I would be worse off only to have the use of one. My …
The Reforming Raker 