Reflections from a sojourning pastor
Suffering with a 103.1 fever, I contemplated the brevity of life this week. Though the fever has passed and I am recovering, it is easy to be reminded how short life is and how weak we truly are. One of my spiritual heroes is Oswald Chambers. Though I differ with a few [...]
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Psalm 19 tells us that the heavens are declaring the glory of God. As I travel, I often show a slide show of universe slides in order to show the massiveness of God’s creation. Too often, we just look at our everyday world and fail to look up and imagine the awesome works of our [...]
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As I was sitting in Dr. Ware’s theology class this week, he told a story from his youth that I would like to relay to you this week. On Thanksgiving each year, his family was allowed to eat breakfast, but they were required to skip lunch. Their mom’s thought process was that they [...]
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When I was a youth, I imagined heaven to be a big, golden box where everyone present sat around and sang from a Baptist hymnal. I probably would have tried to use some elevated descriptive terms to make it sound better but inside I was never truly excited about my eternal home.
As I have [...]
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If one believes that the Bible is God’s Word, it is not an option to set parts of it’s contents to the side. Because of the stark teachings on hell in Scripture, many have done just that. The argument rings out, “How can an enlightened society believe in an eternal punishment described by [...]
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Bertrand Russell was a famous writer and thinker throughout the previous century. He was not a supporter of any religion as he felt they contributed to many ills in society. The following is an excerpt from an essay he wrote outlining the reasons he was not a Christian.
When considering the doctrine of hell [...]
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