Being a Follower

Men’s Study Group Been a bit since I’ve written. My sister in Christ Debbie says I have a calling for this, and I agree in that I feel led to do it, but life has been busy! To be honest, I’ve not been the studying person lately that I know I should be. Yes, daily I have recommitted to Christ, but I’ve also fallen down on that, and my ‘ministry,’ of sorts, has suffered for it. So, jumping right in!...

Sunday School I’m typing this on Saturday morning. Tomorrow’s Sunday School lesson is called Our Relationships.” I studied last night and made several notes that I’d love to share with you - the reader and listener. As a believer living in the world, I think there’s a lot of good we can glean from this! The scripture is from 1 Peter - 1 Peter 3:1-12 NIRV - Wives, follow the lead of your own husban...

Intro In February, I led the service one Wednesday night. I’ve not put this on the blog/podcast yet, so here it is. I titled it, “The Testing of Our Faith: Strengthened to Serve.” The essence of it was finding joy in troubles and tribulations and how they can make us stronger Christians. I hope you find edification in this. God Bless! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this wit...

The Importance of Guarding Truth I have yet to record the last episode - my voice is not 100% - but I’m continuing with my journey through the Bible in chronological order, so I wanted to go ahead and put some things down as God reveals them to me… First of all, there was a blog post by Ken Ham that goes along with Creation, and it led into another one that was just as timely. I’d like to share th...

A Warning from Experience Let this be a warning. It is too easy to get out of the habit of Bible study. I have been ‘less than 100%’ for over a week now. Nothing contagious, per the doctor, but I’ve had trouble breathing and have missed as many days at work as I’ve been over the month of January. Just before Christmas, I decided I was going to stop trying to ‘catch up’ with my daily devotionals an...

Praise God for His Word Going Out Hello! First post of 2025. I didn’t intend to ‘take the holidays off’ but it worked out that way. Some of the sub stackers that I follow have talked about their most popular post or top few of 2024. Since I’m working on this as a podcast as well, I thought I’d share my most popular post as a podcast as well. My most viewed post in 2024 is from February 13 and is c...

Passover Remembrance As I’m going through some devotionals this afternoon, I have one I saved from October 20. It’s called A Day to Remember and comes from my favorite - Beside the Still Waters. It talks about a church that burned so they were moving services to the pastor’s home. They will never forget the day the church burned, but what ties to things I’ve been discussing is how, “in the Old Tes...

The Importance of Teaching Future Generations Today I’d like to share a post from Ken Ham. In his latest blog post , he talks about being encouraged as well as discouraged. I encourage you to read the entire post. There are a couple of things I want to pull out though. I’m typing this on a Saturday afternoon and this reminded me of tomorrow’s Sunday School lesson, which delves into the first Passo...

Hidden Treasure Picking up from the last post and the Jerusalem mission field, I am reminded of the analogy of the hidden treasure. I love the idea of this, and I love the way it was expanded upon in a movie called Testament. It is only in one verse, but it says so very much! I’ve also quoted the next two verses. Matthew 13:44-46 NIRV - “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure that was hidden in a...

Small Group Reflections Today I’d like to share some notes from the Tuesday night small group. In our gathering, the men and women meet in separate buildings for their discussions. I serve as the ‘leader’ for the men, though I consider it more of a facilitator role. I make copious notes while also encouraging group discussion. We are still in the Training Union book (similar to a Sunday School boo...

Happy Holidays I hope everyone ate plenty of turkey and dressing, or ham and stuffing if that’s what you prefer. I do apologize for the lack of posts and audio. We traveled for the holiday and I was working on my Tuesday night leading of the small group study. More on that later. Right now I want to go back to the revisit of an old post. As before, here’s a link to the original - Compelling Them t...

Why Revisit This Message? Today I’d like to reshare a post from over a year ago. A very dear friend and sister in Christ brought up a question from this post. She didn’t disagree at all, but thought it could use some clarification. Since I’ve started recording as a podcast, I have thought about recording older posts as well, and after talking to her I thought I’d start with this one. I’ll link the...

Judea We had our bi-weekly Tuesday night men’s group tonight. My notes for the class talked about Cultural Christians and I realized when I mentioned it on the last post I was talking about notes I had not shared yet. Sorry about that! I will jump into those notes now. We are up to the week of September 22. Remember, we only meet every other Tuesday night so I try to cover more than one lesson, bu...

Owning Your Faith Story Yesterday we started talking about Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus. We talked about how he used it to testify on behalf of the power of Jesus Christ, and that we can do the same! But remember, you have to have your own conversion account; you can’t just share Paul’s. Remember the Way of the Master series from Living Waters Ministries that I mentioned? It is a grea...

The Command to Witness The Sunday School lesson for November 10 is Witness - Believers must share their faith story with others. Yes, it’s a MUST - because of the Great Commission! Matthew 28:18-20 NIRV - Then Jesus came to them. He said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. So you must go and make disciples of all nations. Baptize them in the name of the Father and of the S...

Doubt and Trust Today I want to share the first of three “sermons” that I brought at church. The audio is pulled from our live stream, so please excuse any sound issues. This is from July 21, 2024. The pastor was out so I filled in. Remember I said I’m an evangelist, not a pastor? This is an example. I’m not trying to steer the flock in a certain direction, but more speaking to individuals about d...

No Partial Message As promised, pulling at the thread we started yesterday, let’s talk about the FULL Gospel. Paul had declared, as the King James puts it, all the counsel of God. Are we also sharing the full message? Do we say “God Loves You!” and smile as we walk on? There is absolutely no salvation in that statement. Do we say, “Jesus can forgive you” as we continue on our journey? Again, not t...

Commit Today, I’d like to share notes from our recent Sunday School lesson titled Commit. The tagline of the lesson is Believers must resolve to faithfully serve Jesus all their days. Note that this means it is not a part time job. This Christianity thing - making Jesus Lord - in an ETERNAL commitment, and this scares some people. Remember, when we allow Jesus to take control, He is supposed to ha...

Announcement A quick break from the usual format: from this post onward, I will include an audio file. This will also be available as a podcast on Apple, Spotify, and other platforms. I personally consume the bulk of my content via podcasts while working, driving, etc. and I think others may be the same. I also feel led to expand the reach of this blog, and a podcast seems like the natural progres...