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March 20
This past weekend I had a birthday, and with birthdays comes well wishes and being with friends and family. It also makes one a bit reflective of life and having made another trip around the sun. After the friends and family leave, the cake is gone, and the laughter has died out, and you find time by yourself, it makes you think about what is really important in life. For me I would say the connections I’ve made in life…
March 13
For the believer joy is a fruit of the spirit. To know that our sins are forgiven, our account is cleared, graced bestowed, and hope granted should create an inner celebration for those who have put their faith in Christ Jesus. Therefore, as followers of Christ, our perspective of life should be different than the rest of the world not rooted in the circumstances of life but in the reality of a loving and forgiving God. My question for us…
March 6
LONE OAK NEWS Psalm 46:10 – Be still, and know that I am God; When I was young my mother used to tell me I had “Ants in my Pants” because I wouldn’t sit still much as I was always into something. Sadly, we have become an “Ants in your Pants” society because most of us hate being still. How many people constantly stay on their phone nowadays? We are a culture of little busy-bodies! Over time this kind of…
March 1
Last week we discussed truth, and I want to continue that discussion this week. Pontius Pilate ask Jesus in John 18, “What is truth?” This is a question that people over the generations and throughout the world grapple with even today. Truth is not mere opinion, perspective, or feelings, but rather a view of God’s reality. In another words, truth is thinking God’s thoughts after Him. If you are in an art gallery, the only person who can tell you…
February 22
What is Truth? (Part 1) Love cannot exist without absolute truth. No doubt love is the highest ethic, but love has no place of validation without truth. To illustrate this I want to begin with a short exchange within a conversation once told: Ravi Zacharias, Christian apologist who speaks around the world, was asked which is more important love or truth, and he responded truth. The questioner quickly disagreed to state that love is the most important to which Ravi…
February 15, 2019
Love is a most confusing term these days because what many call “love” isn’t love at all. So today to get a better understanding of what love actually is I will let the Apostle Paul speak for himself. 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 HOLMAN If I speak human or angelic languages but do not have love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I…
February 6, 2019
Last night the President of the United States spoke to the nation in his yearly State of the Union address. There were many hot button topics that he addressed from the economy, new creation of jobs, to the much contested border wall, and the issue of abortion. Recently, the state of New York has passed legislation that allows for trimester abortions up to the day of birth. Also recently, the Virginia governor, who is also a medical doctor, stated on…
January 30, 2019
Every day we are faced with choices to make. Some of us like making decisions and some of us run from making decisions in our lives. We are faced with choices in how we are going to spend our time, money, educational goals, etc. that one day will make up the sum of our life. One day all of us will look back and see what kind of life we lived based on the culmination of choices we made throughout…
January 23, 2019
Have you thought about how good we have it to be Christians in America? Yes, we may experience push back here and there and be antagonized for our faith, but nothing like many in other countries. Even with how our cultural horizon has changed over the last few years, we still have it so good and many of us as Christians have failed to appreciate this fact. How many churches have split over silly things such as the color…
December 26, 2018
On December 26th, 1987, at 2 a.m. in the morning a dear family friend passed away, Thomas Benjamin Cobb. He was like a grandfather to me. He was an enormous jokester and loved to play games. That year he fought colon cancer, and it finally landed its final blow to his life the morning after Christmas. I remember at my young age the mixed feelings of losing someone for the first time, while also have the feelings of cheer…