by Jeremy | Sep 22, 2015 | Holy Day
Here’s a fun thought experiment: Where do you think the human race would be today if Satan hadn’t been in the garden with Adam and Eve? The third chapter of Genesis would certainly be different, but how different? I don’t know. I’m not that...
by Jeremy | Sep 18, 2015 | Sabbath Thoughts
Nobody wants to be the guy with one talent. One talent is scary. The guy with two talents, he can afford to lose a whole talent and still bounce back. And the guy with five? He can take all the risks in the world. He has five, after all. Losing one talent would just...
by Jeremy | Sep 13, 2015 | Holy Day
The hardest thing about being a Christian, in my experience, is being a Christian—that is, a physical being from a physical world trying to follow a spiritual God from a spiritual world. It’s a battle—a constant, unending battle between the will of the flesh and...
by Jeremy | Sep 11, 2015 | Sabbath Thoughts
Mr. Blackwell’s fifth-grade social studies class. That’s the question everyone asks, isn’t it? “Where were you when it happened?” That’s where I was. Eleven years old with no idea that we even had a World Trade Center, much less...
by Jeremy | Sep 4, 2015 | Sabbath Thoughts
In English, a double negative flips a sentence on its head. To say that something was “not without its challenges” is just a confusing way of saying, “there were some challenges.” If an effort “didn’t go unnoticed,” it just...
