Recently Paige and I went to see the new movie, Sound of Freedom, and a line in the movie stuck out to me. One of the characters, revealing his call to the work he is doing, says “when God tells you what to do, you cannot hesitate.” There are so many stories in Scripture of […]
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God is …..
For the next few weeks in our high school class we will be looking at and finishing the phrase “God is …” If we replace God in this phrase and put any number of other people, things, places, etc. we would all finish the phrase in different ways. If I started a sentence with “bowling […]
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No Age Requirement
When I got to the office this morning I was thinking of various things to write about for a weekly study post. I opened up our website getting ready to write the new post and I began scrolling through the home page looking over how much the website has changed (for the better (thank you […]
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Mercy
This week in class we will study mercy as the beginning of a class on things all believers should know, understand and practice. Before we dive in on Sunday for this weeks weekly study I want to take a moment to look at the life of Paul, a man definitely shown mercy. Before we get […]
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Do you know Him?
Many of those who read this post would say that they are a Christian. That they believe in and follow God. That they do good things, say the right things, try to help people, call Jesus Lord, etc. And that all looks good on paper (or on a screen). But when it comes down to […]
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Two Lost Brothers
I have kept a document saved on my computer ever since I was at Harding titled “interesting thoughts.” I started writing down (or typing out) these thoughts as I began to study more and more for many of my classes as a Preaching student in the Bible department. Some of these thoughts are my own, […]
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Experience
One of the coolest things for me to think about when thinking about Jesus is His humanity. We know that Jesus is the Son of God and that He has the power to save, to heal, to walk on water, to defeat death, etc. He shares the power that His father has. But his divinity […]
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Surrounded
I was on Facebook the other day scrolling, seeing how my old friends were doing or what my family was up to. As I was doing so I came across a post with an interesting picture. I usually don’t stop much to read a post some has shared or from someone I’m not that close […]
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Take Them by the Hand
Second post of the week! I got inspired to write a second post after listening to Ricky’s Wednesday night class. He referred to two passages: Mark 8:22-25 (the healing of the blind man at Bethsaida) and Jeremiah 31:32. Both make a statement regarding a person or a group of people being led by hand. In […]
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With God
1 Kings 1-2 tells the story of passing of the throne from David to his son Solomon. However, the story does not happen that easily. The story begins with David on his death bed and one of his sons seeing an opportunity to take a shot at the throne. He begins gaining the support of […]