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Joshua 5:13 Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?” 14 “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.”…

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines the word eternal, in part, as 1. Being without beginning or end; 2. Continuing without interruption; perpetual. When pressed to imagine inherent things that might have been evident throughout the world’s history, we might say air, light, or water. But on second thought, we know that…

“The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.” We have been talking the past couple of Sunday about different challenges we face…

From a heat perspective, the week of August 20, 2023 was as brutal as any I’ve witnessed in central Arkansas.  Not only was it a scorcher of a week, it was without precipitation, making the humid heat seem worse.  When it is dry for any length of time during the summer, I find myself watching…

C.S. Lewis is quoted quite a bit in this little blog. He was hugely influential in his time and his writings continue to resonate today. He was a medieval scholar who wrote incredible works on the literature of that time, but most people know him for his writings in the realm of apologetics. What was…

In the Victor Hugo book Les Misérables, the protagonist Jean Valjean, after being released from prison, eats a hearty meal at a church provided by its staff and then spends the night.  He arises early before anyone else and departs the building with silver utensils belonging to the church in his possession.  French police see…

This title is borrowed from a book by Alvin Plantinga. In it he discusses exactly the assumption addressed by Pastor Lawrence this past Sunday, the idea that a loving God would absolutely NOT allow evil. It may be hard to wrap our heads around, but might there not be greater concerns to God than the…

NextGen Pastor Andriel Diaz shared a bit of his personal testimony this past Sunday, closing out the series of “Where the Tree Grows” and what I would characterize as “God’s choices, which seem unlikely to man”.  Pastor Andriel’s sermon reminded me of the Roman centurion Cornelius, as described in Acts 10.  In response to the…

The relentless drive in our contemporary political environment to push people into one of two groups is largely centered around ideas of responsibility. Who are we responsible to? Who are we responsible for? Within Christian circles, we find this same division. We would ALL probably answer that we are responsible to God, but one group…

As Christ-followers, we Mosaics are not of this world.  It has always been so for those that have the Spirit of the one true God living within them  We have always had the choice of living according to the standards of the world or living according to the standards of the Spirit, that is, exhibiting…