The greatest expression of love is to guide someone to truth. No matter the hills or valleys a person must climb, it is the truth a righteous person seeks and desires to impart to others. Seeking the truth may require a bit of courage (courage being applied faith). We may need to pray for more […]
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If the end goal is salvation, what then is the means by which it occurs? For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” -Romans 10:13 OK, then, all an unbeliever has to do is simply call on the Lord, right? This is true, however, there’s a caveat. For the mind
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Why do we regard the opinions of others so deeply? Is it a blessing or a curse? Is that even the right question? Might we fare better by challenging the basic presupposition that it’s good to regard the opinions of others as valuable? I favor the latter strategy. I believe God does, too. God has
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I think one of the greatest lies ever told is that work is supposed to be something other than what it fundamentally is – work. As Christians, we sometimes forget what God promised after the Fall in the Garden of Eden. To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in
In modern discourse, it’s become customary to tell someone who’s gotten too caught up in a frivolous point of argument to “go touch some grass.” At face value, it’s a tongue-in-cheek implication that the subject of said command has spent too long in their basement or on their computer and has lost touch with the
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The secular proverb “knowledge is power” was derived from the works of Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), an English philosopher and statesman. The original phrase comes from the Latin “ipsa scientia potestas est”, which loosely translates “knowledge itself is power.” It was Bacon’s secretary, Thomas Hobbes, who coined the phrase in Latin “scientia potentia est”, which
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Jesus said: Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves me, he
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For years the Spirit’s had me teaching my congregation to read their Bibles on their own time, to make a serious habit of it. I encourage them to do so in the absence of any personal agendas (e.g., reading into the Bible what isn’t there and/or looking for ways the Bible can be manipulated to
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You may recall the good old days of Sesame Street. One of my favorite characters was the Cookie Monster (maybe because I could relate to the way he mowed down a chocolate chip cookie like nobody’s business? – LOL). He used to sing the song, “C is for cookie, that’s good enough for me…Oh, cookie,
Now, before you gloss over and assume this blog is just about golf, please know that I also write about the Ten Commandments, vandalism, and envy. So, please read on… There’s an old saying, ‘every golf shot makes someone happy.’ If it’s a good shot, the player is happy; however, if it’s a bad shot, their opponents
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