I have several roles I’m fulfilling, two of which are teacher and son. I am a math teacher at a high school. I am also a son to my parents. However, those two roles are very different. Namely, one is conditional, and the other is not. My being a teacher is conditional upon my performance. I […]
These are some dark days. How are you doing? If I’m struggling, you must be as well… I read these encouraging words this morning: “Do not be afraid, Abram.I am your shield;your reward will be very great.”Genesis 15:1-3At first, I thought, “But those are words to Abraham and not me!” But I thought about why these words […]
Mark 15:30–save yourself, and come down from the cross!”There is something particular in movies, plays and books, with storylines of self-denial and suffering for the sake of a relationship, a cause, or nation that we universally admire. Whether a person is “faith based” or not, denying oneself for the benefit of another will always be […]
That which we want more than anything, God makes us wait for. Why? Because God is more interested in us trusting Him than giving us our desire. God is more interested in what kind of person we become than our getting what we want. One thing that Abraham wanted more than anything else was a […]
Romans 13:10-Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Depending how “in-tune” we are with our heart, we generally know when our love has “waned”. That’s why the goal is to “catch” any hardness in our hearts, that it does not affect our thoughts and eventually our actions, so we can call our […]
Not all gatherings are equally good. Some gatherings are encouraged and will be encouraging to those who gather – such as a gathering of the people of God for worship. However, some gatherings are harmful, and will harm those who gather as well as those outside of that gathering. We saw a mob take over the […]
Romans 8:19–For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. When I was about 20 years old, my grandmother who shortly passed afterwards, told me that I needed to marry “a good church girl”. It wasn’t until I came to Christ at 23 and got married at 25, that I realized that […]
Something I knew would eventually happen in the U.S. is happening right now. A mob trying to overthrow the government! Some say they never thought this would happen in the U.S. They say something like this only happens in a third world country, but not here in the U.S. that is built upon democracy! But I […]
Romans 6:20-21-When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death. One of the more difficult things to convey to anyone who sees Christianity through the lens of “do’s and don’ts”, is the […]
What if this world wasn’t created but just sprang up out of a big bang? What if there is no God? What if there is no after-life? What if our lives have no purpose or meaning? What if after we die, there’s nothing? Would that free us to truly live? Now that we don’t have to […]