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Someone I know had trouble with her freshman college roommates. She didn’t drink or run around and her roommates found that disgusting! The fact that she didn’t criticize them wasn’t enough. She didn’t do what they did. She wasn’t one of them. In that situation, I think the roommates were appalled by her Christian beliefs…

We are in the hard messy middle between salvation from sin’s penalty and being saved from the presence of sin. We are learning how to walk according to the Holy Spirit and to reject living like the world. We are in the process of being saved from the power of sin. The Bible doesn’t sugarcoat…

The World Began with Joy When God made the world, there was singing and shouts of joy. Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? … When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?  (Job 38:4–7) The World Ends with Joy Hallelujah! For the Lord our…

Harry Durgin Facebook; Kilauea Eruption, September 2021 God didn’t just throw us into the world, saying: “Sink or swim.” We were created on purpose. We are where we are on purpose. We are given work to do. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that…

God doesn’t look at outward appearances, but at the heart. God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. (1 Samuel 16:7)  God’s standards are always the same. It doesn’t matter whether you are Jew or Gentile, your race, your ethnicity, your gender, your income, your looks.…

God created us on purpose. God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (Genesis 1:27)  God gave our mothers conception for us to be born at this time, in this place. And the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth… (Ruth 4:13)  The Lord had closed…

When It’s Over In the gospels, there are several accounts of Jesus leaving a group and going away. In some verses, we read that Jesus hid Himself from them. This is, or should be, sobering. Terrifying, really. “While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light.” These…

Does It Matter? We are commanded to pray for the lost. (1 Timothy 2:1-8) This can seem like an overwhelming endeavor with little or no result, especially when the person, or people, or groups are personally unknown to you. But it is a command. And we are told that “The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish…

Pray for the Lost! I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,…

And yet more evil. I mourn about Afghanistan and the evil being done. I’m appalled at the lawless, wicked actions in the US and elsewhere. Lord! Help! Come soon! What We Should NOT Do Do not fret because of evildoers, be not envious toward wrongdoers. (Psalm 37:1) Do not envy the prosperous wicked. (Psalm 37:7; Psalm 73)…