August 27, 2014. “For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I…

August 26, 2014. It seems (at least to me) to be a growing consensus among Christians today that the sect of the Jews that held so tightly to the law in Jesus’ time called the Pharisees were inherently really, really bad. It is even becoming popular to describe certain groups of Christians who are more…

August 25, 2014. As I have been growing in the faith over the past years, there are a few things that I have come to realize about how we handle what we believe. I am in no way an expert, but I have made some observations that I think are very helpful if applied to…

August 24, 2014. It was once proposed to me by a friend of mine that one of the reasons that he believes that Christianity is true is the fact that Christianity is often hard. If it were a man made religion, certainly we would see many differences that would include ideologies and concepts that would…

August 23, 2014. “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other…

August 22, 2014. I finished my first week of graduate school today and it has reaffirmed my love and awe of science. Yes, I know, I’m a nerd, but some of this stuff is just amazing! The detail of our DNA, the signaling pathways and cascades, the homeostasis of the body that regulates to the…

August 21, 2014. “So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is…

August 20, 2014. “So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did…

August 19, 2014. “And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly.You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince over his…

August 18, 2014. “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.”(Colossians 3:23-24) I was riding home from UAMS today feeling on top of the world. I had all the motivation in the world, so it…

August 17, 2014. A while ago I did a post entitled “The gospel according to Isaiah” in which the good news of Jesus was proclaimed by a prophet long before the time of Jesus. Today, I want to do something similar, but perhaps with a passage of Scripture that is more difficult to understand/interpret than Isaiah…