Wow! Looking at my last blog entry I realize that it has been over a year since my last blog entry. During that time, I have had several significant life events consuming me. I retired from the United States Army after 22 years, I found a new job working for Kansas State University, and I started to take seminary classes through Regent University. I don't want to spend the entire blog time talking about me, but I just wanted to update some things as to why it has been so long between entries....

“Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.” ~ 1 Corinthians...

“But Jesus said to them, ‘You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?’” Mark 10:38 ~ New King James Version

            Often times, I think that the disciples of Jesus get a bad rap. Considering the Jewish culture, their Jewish upbringing in a Jewish home, and other factors that led to form who they were by the time Jesus popped onto the scene, I don’t think anybody else placed in their situations would...

We have what have been termed "the three R's" in school. What about possible "three R's" when it comes to God's Kingdom?

What could possibly cause a whole town to come out and meet Jesus and beg Him to leave the whole region?

Many times in the body of Christ, there is division. This was not always so and this is not how God intended it to be. 1 Corinthians 12 goes into great detail discussing the body.

    If I had a chance to gander at what would be the most misinterpreted Scripture, I would render a guess that these two words would at least be in the top five: "Judge not."

    Do Christians limit what God can do?

 

    God's kingdom is a monarchy and the negative connotation Americans have toward kingdoms could hinder obedience if care is not taken.

 

A new way to look at the acronym TDY...

Fear and forgiveness seem to be an opposite impossible couple. These two traits, when correctly applied, provide a key to deeper understanding of God.