Posts from May 2024
Why Can’t I?
One of the most popular and repeated phrases of a young child when they become around 5 years old is….. “WHY?” When you tell a child to stop playing on the high bars of the playground, their response is… “Why?” When you tell them to stop being so loud when you are a restaurant, their response is… “Why?” When you tell them to eat all their vegetables instead of the ice cream, their response is… “Why?” Even as a teenager…
Accept the One Who is Weak in Faith
Once upon a time inside the church in Rome in the 1st century, there were the Jewish Christians and there were the Gentile Christians. The Jewish Christians were those who were ethnically Jews, but they had come to have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. On the other hand, the Gentile Christians were non-Jewish, albeit also people of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who used to be people from all kinds of beliefs, and religious systems. We learn from…
How Then Shall We Live as Citizens of This Nation as a Christ Follower?
There is a bit of common bit of advice that is passed around every year at Thanksgiving time. Now I realize that it is May and we are all ready for summer, but let’s think about what happens at Thanksgiving time for many of us. It is a season when we gather with family that often we have not seen each other for some time, so we do a lot of catching up with one another. There are many topics…
Our Commitment to Authenticity
Romans 12:9-21 Recently Patty and I took off some time to celebrate her birthday by going to the beautiful state of Hawaii. Of course we had a grand and beautiful time on that gorgeous Big Island. We swam a lot, snorkeled the corral coves, hiked many of the hills, and we shopped! One of the days we took a long hike that began about 1000 feet above sea level and proceeded down the lava flow areas all the way down…
Commitment to a Higher Calling
Romans 12:1-8 We are now on what I have categorized as the last section of the book of Romans. This whole year we have studied Romans and Our Calling this series the gospel truth. The theology of what the gospel is in full detail is so well explained in the 1st 11 chapters of the book of Romans. But around the 12th chapter of this amazing letter in our New Testament we begin this section which is often considered to…