How to be Salt and bring flavor to the world. I wrote last week about the Beginnings of Sorrows as it is laid out in Matthew 24. The passage is filled with warnings. Maybe a better word would be expectations. The Lord is saying as we get closer to the end, expect things like this …
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Thoughts on Our World – Part 2
Bethany and I have been going through a book by Dr. Eric Mason called Woke Church. Woke being a description of the church as awake, aware, and active. He explains how short the church has fallen in terms of justice and mercy. He also speaks of how Christ’s earthly ministry involved confronting the religious people …
Thoughts on Our World – Part 1
I am slow to give an opinion or to express what’s on my mind. Usually it takes me some time to process and to think through situations. It can be very frustrating to friends and loved ones, it might even be frustrating to my church family, those for whom I am an under-shepherd. I take …
End Times? Part 3
Is it the End? Matthew 24 – Part 3 Matthew 24:29-44 – Is it the End?Wrap up – need your Bibles. We have seen two movements in the Lord’s answers to their questions. Now, in verse 29 he moves to another event – answering perhaps the last question- when is Christ coming? Verses 29-33 seem …
End Times? Part 2
Abomination of Desolation Matthew 24 – Part 2 Matthew 24:15-28 – The Abomination of Desolation?Part 2 – remember to get your Bibles. Remember, the disciples had asked several questions. They wanted signs. The Lord answers them. The thoughts from yesterday were about the ‘beginnings of sorrows’-but now in verse 15 there is a move to …
End Times?
Beginnings of Sorrows Matthew 24 – Part 1 Matt 24:3-14 – Are we in the ‘beginnings of sorrows’?Best to read this with a Bible next to you to see the verses. We look around at the events in our world right now and ask, What is going on? Is this the end? A quick look …
Children!
Interesting information about children. Psychologists say that a child’s moral compass must be turned on by age seven or they could become pathological morally. The compass is activated by making sure children understand that their actions impact the lives of others. Parents who wait until the child is five or six to discipline them, are …