From Questions, Two Applications
It was a beautiful summer day in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. My grandparents were taking my sister and I tubing...truly one of our favorite activities of those childhood vacations. We arrived at the creek and shortly there after launched out into the water as our grandparents went on to meet us at the …
Francis Schaeffer was indeed a modern day prophet. Of course I do not mean a prophet like Isaiah or Elijah. He was a prophet in the sense that he could see what was occurring in life and society around him and understand where he was in history. Every follower of Christ should aspire to be …
I have written before that we not only need to read God's word, but that we NEED to read it with other brethren as well. We need this for the same Spirit who teaches and trains us personally is the same Spirit that our brothers and sisters have. The Spirit can use their mouths to …
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 …
What is your destiny? Have you found yourself? What is your meaning or purpose in life? These are questions that have surfaced in various ways, especially in the modern west over the past few decades. Unfortunately it seems more often than not it is either an unhealthy obsession or allowed to take up too much …
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 …
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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The Reforming Raker 