Your mind is built on the idea of complexities and predicting events of the future. If someone throws you a ball, your brain will work very quickly to understand the physics of that object as it floats through the air in an arch towards your hand. You have seen this pattern before and likely practiced …
I wanted to share some thoughts about one of my all-time favorite topics – The Rapture. Before I dive into the position and the support for my view I wanted to say that when it comes to the rapture it’s not a straight forward and easy doctrine to understand. Over the past four or five …
I want to share some principles that I use to live life. I created this list decades ago and have updated it many times over the years. I’d like to say that I live by every one of these all the time, but I don’t. I forget sometimes. I get discouraged at times. I fail …
There is a passage in the New Testament where Jesus is explaining to His disciples why He uses parables. Matthew 13:10-15 says that it had been granted to them (His disciples) to understand, but to others it had not been granted. Why would Jesus do this? Is He wanting to keep people away from God? …
The word kingdom is a bit strange to our American sensibilities. We like to think of ourselves in terms of democracy and rule by the people, but the idea of a king is a familiar concept to many nations. Kingdoms are ruled by kings, but for the sake of this article we can refer to …
Have you ever thought about your thoughts? Where they come from? How they work? If so, you’re not alone. Miriam-Webster defines it like this – “An idea, plan, opinion, picture, etc., that is formed in your mind : something that you think of.” MIT School of Engineering says that thoughts are “really just electro-chemical reactions.” …
This is an interesting question that has been asked thousands, perhaps millions of times throughout the centuries. Most people on the planet today believe in some sort of afterlife that ends with either punishment or reward. As a believer in Christ I find it interesting that there are over 200 different Christian denominations in the …
And God Saw That It Was Good Be sure to check out my blog post on angels. Some say that God created both good and bad spirits in the beginning, but the Bible is pretty clear that everything at the beginning was good. In the book of Genesis, God affirms the goodness of all that …
With a blog that focuses on seeing the world through spiritual eyes I thought it might be good to share a recent study our church did on Angels. In this article I’ll focus on the Holy Angels, the ones aligned with God and carrying out His plan and purposes. I’ll leave the fallen angels for …
Mark and Ashley were excited about the swimming pool ad in the Sunday paper. The summer was unbearably hot, and a new pool was way out of their budget. It was listed as four foot deep, fifteen foot diameter, and $200. It was perfect. It was cheap. They just had to get there before anybody …
