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 …
Belle and her two boys sat on the edge of the bed in a tiny room barely big enough for the bed, dresser, and a cloth toy box decorated with orange, blue, and yellow dinosaurs. Quinn was older and a bit reserved, but Cooper usually spoke up about anything and everything, especially things that troubled …
I choose God because it’s a logically plausible choice that I feel with my emotions and believe with my faith. I do not chose my faith in God because it gives me hope…but I can say there is an amazing hope in my faith in God and the Bible. I believe there is life after death, and what I do in this life affects the next. I have a hope that in the next life, I will see some of those I knew in this life. I have a hope that by passing on this hope to others that they too will enter the next life. With my faith in God I feel that I have a purpose. And that purpose is to help others find this hope. And that purpose will affect the lives of others for eternity.
