From Questions, Two Applications
Here is a pop-quiz... Can you name a country that has: a mounting love of show and luxury an obsession with sex freakishness in the arts...pretending to be creativity an increased desire to live off of the government ...and has 50 states??? Had to add that last detail for anyone reading outside the USofA who …
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 …
Just a few months after I had taken on my first pastorate (that is, my current and only pastorate) I led my first "Annual Business Meeting"...and had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I botched the budget presentation, didn't know how to make a motion for a vote, and lastly, I didn't maintain the …
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 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 …
This morning I was out for a drive at sunrise. On the horizon was a peachish, orange circle. As I looked at it with the clouds around it and wistfully spread in front it I was surprised...surprised that I was looking at it...it was the sun after all. Or was it? I wasn't sure which …
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Photo by Jonny Swaleson Unsplash Just an hour ago I sat down with a cup of coffee to do my morning devotions and out of no where I knew what I needed to blog about. There was no split in the clouds and a light shining down on me as a I read the Bible. However, my …
Ok...so yes that title was used as 'click bait'. I come clean. Yet it is more than that. If it did in fact operate as click bait that was in part because it is one of the most popular questions Christians ask with regard to the Bible and "End Times Theology". However, I have another …
A mentor of mine once told me that "variety is the spice of life." Although it did not originate with him, it was new to me...and boy did I need it. He was using this proverb to help in guiding how I preached. My mentor wanted to see me diversify my sermon presentation in how …
I am a planner. When I go to bed at night I know what my morning will hold when I get up (unless the LORD return or he takes me to be with him). With the good and the bad I do not like the uncertainty of an unplanned day. To be perfectly honest my …
The Reforming Raker 