Ephesians 4:7-16 7 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. 8 Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.” 9 (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? 10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11 And he ga ...
I often think that if there was one thing about me my wife would change, it would have to be my total inability to be empathetic. Sure it might be nice if I consistently hung my clothes back up in the closet too… so maybe there are a few things… I digress. I have always struggled with “feeling” the emotional pains of others. While compassionate and sympathetic, I am simply not the person that will share in the emotions of some impactful event. ...
Late last year I was approached about being an elder at my church. Over the first half of this year I began the process. Through this process I was asked some really tough questions. Honestly, I felt that many of these questions were things that all of us as Christians should be able to answer. In the course of the interviews a conversation arose about dealing with the confrontation of sin. The discussion was good and hearing some of the thing ...
In this day and age we are OBSESSED with dieting. We are constantly on the look out for healthier living and eating. This obsession has even spilled over into “fasting” diets, with the singular focus of self health and weight loss. One particular fast that I was recently discussing was the “Daniel Fast”. The idea is to model your diet after what Daniel ate when he came under Babylonian captivity. To setup the scenario, the Babylonian king, Neb ...
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In 1 Samuel 16 we meet King David for the first time. Saul had disobeyed God and therefore was rejected by God as king over Israel. God tells Samuel to go to Bethlehemite because he has provided a new king. Samuel did what the Lord commanded and went looking for the new king. When he gets there he connects with Jesse and his sons. When he looked on the first son, Eliab, he thought "this must be him!" But the Lord said to Samuel "Do not look on hi ...
