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Swallow Your Preferences
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For the past month Ive been taking an Old Testament class as part of my requirements for seminary. As I’ve gone through some of the prophetic books and as I’ve thought about what I already know about the Old Testament, Ive noticed a trend… God’s men often had to go against the preferences of…
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Stunted Growth
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I’ve always placed a lot of blame on Christians that are inside the church and aren’t growing in their relationship with Jesus. I’ve always placed a lot of blame on those that have been in the church for a good amount of time and seem to have not grown since the day of their…
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For the Troubled…
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Habakkuk 3:16-19 “When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops. Although the fig tree shall not blossom,…
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Sometimes Less is More
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I’m still a young “whipper snapper”(at least that’s what the older folks call me), but I’ve already figured out that in life, sometimes less is more. For example… What could you do to spend less time doing temporal things so that you can make an eternal difference somewhere else? Could you talk less, in…
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Don’t Be an Amos
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Ok, the title was mostly to grab your attention. Amos was an alright guy, but the people he had to deal with weren’t. In fact, one of the biggest things Amos speaks to in the book is the people’s complacency. The people of Amos’ time had gotten really good at going through the motions…