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Disobedience: Get Out of My Face!

By Dean Lusk As nutty as it sounds, my son has occasionally had issues with disobedience. Nothing extraordinary, but standard types of lunacy that tend to plague kids and teens (though I'm mostly positive this never aff…
Me? A Servant?

We often see in scripture that the apostles referred to themselves as “servants of God.” We also use the phrase “serving the Lord” when we talk about work we do in the church. In the Bible, the…
Obedience: Abraham Chooses the Great Path

I remember during one of my poetry classes in my last year at college we had to interview our neighbor. My neighbor commented that the pattern he is noticing is that I like familiarity. How true is that. This past weeke…
He Received a Warning From God -- and Obeyed

Can you guess who it is? If you guessed Noah, you'd be correct! This is what we learned in church today and this marks hero # 3 in our eleven-week series. Noah took the warning seriously and when God said that change was…
Suffering with Suffering

A friend of mine suffered the loss last month of his only brother. I clung to him because I knew his pain -- 4 years ago I lost my brother unexpectedly as well. I had attended a bereaved group for some time, but for the…
"Holier than God": Are You Trying To Make the Rules or Follow Them?

Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel.” The LORD said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations…
Breaking Through Brick Walls

Have you ever felt like you were running repeatedly into a brick wall? Try as hard as you might, you can never seem to break down the barrier that separates you from what's on the other side. In the end, you end up wit…
How Seriously Do You Follow Jesus?

"‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me," Numbers 3…
A Christian Who Refused to Believe in God Until Now

I used to say that I was a Christian. But for years, I didn't believe in God. Years of Catholic school education, images of nuns, confessionals, and priest sprinkling incense at Easter certainly left me a "holy fear". Bu…
Are You Abstinent Out of Conviction or Condition?

A good friend and I were talking about our state of abstinence last night and I had to write about it today. Her and I have both maintained celibacy for quite some time and we're proud of it. I chuckled as I asked my fri…