Hey, everybody. Mondays are usually when I do a little devotional thought on my blog. I know that I’ve been a little inconsistent as of late, so I decided to make it up to you. Over the summer, I’ve been doing a sermon series on the Fruit of the Spirit,…
In the past few months, I’ve gotten into something that I never thought I would be interested in. I blame my wife. It’s usually her fault when this sort of thing happens. I’ve been watching a lot of cooking shows lately. Like I said, it’s my wife’s fault. She loaded…
Last week, we saw that there’s nothing we can do to save ourselves. It is by grace we have been saved, through faith, and not by works. So does that mean we’re off the hook? Forget about doing good deeds and just not worry about how we live our lives?…
One of the most famous lines written by Paul is Ephesians 2:8-9–“It is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.” This verse makes it pretty clear. The good works we…
When Jesus was in the middle of His ministry, He actually sent out His disciples with a mission. As He sent them out, He gave them some unusual orders: He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts;…
A few months ago, I found an interesting article by Rachel Held Evans about the lady described in Proverbs 31. In it, she laments the fact that apparently, in some circles, people hold up the description in Proverbs 31 and use it to say, “SEE!?!? This is what a good…
When I was younger, I was terrified of tornadoes. I don’t know why that was, exactly. I was never actually in one, but I had heard plenty about them. I knew how dangerous they could be. Minnesota is at the northern edge of Tornado Alley, which means that while we…
Have you ever given much thought to subatomic particles? Or stuff that’s really, really small? Many years ago, I found this Scale of Universe interactive site and I just love to scroll down to as small as I can, to see the smallest of known particles, the neutrino (although I…
How do you explain the miraculous things that Jesus did? How do you explain the incredible claims that He made about Himself? That was a question that the people of Jesus’ day and age had to ask and answer. Some of them recognized Him as the long-awaited Messiah, even if…
Imagine: it’s a time of great national upheaval. The future of your nation has been cast into uncertainty. In the midst of all of that, God appears to you. How would you react? That’s what the prophet Isaiah experienced: In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord…