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Trials, tests, and tribulation…these are all things that we seem to go through every single day of our lives.  Sometimes they’re easy to handle, but sometimes, it seems like it’s pouring down rain and a flood is inevitably coming. We have problems with work, with our friends, with our family, and with our own selves. [...]

When I was in college I witnessed one of the most horrific/awesome moments of my life in a store parking lot. My roommate and I (Tuttle was his nickname because he was from Tuttle, OK) had just parked at Wal-Mart to stock up on enough Ramen noodles to effectively shut down our kidneys from the [...]

When I was a small child I always wanted a machine gun. And I’m not talking like an M16 or a rifle, but a Gatling gun.  You know the one they use in the movie Predator to destroy half a forest?  One of those.   I would beg and ask my parents to get me [...]

There’s a small, suburban town that’s a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio right on Lake Eerie that boasts a population of about 50,000 people named Mentor, Ohio. In this pleasant beachfront community, it was recently voted one of the “100 Best Places to Live” by CNN and Money magazine. In Mentor there is also a high [...]

If you know anything about Church history, then you’ll know the reason the Catholic church split was over an age old debate:  Faith vs. Works.  Martin Luther, the founder of the Reformation and father of modern day Protestantism, effectively split the church when reading through Paul epistles in the New Testament and reiterated what we [...]

      Book of James: James 1:2-4 JAMES 1:2-4 “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials. Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience, but let patience have it’s perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.“   It blows my mind when I really [...]

      Matthew 5:21-26 Anger 21 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ 22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to [...]

  Bible Study: Christians living in darkness?   John points out that it is possible for people to say they are in the light, yet actually live in darkness. Note the four “liars” here: (1) lying about fellowship, 1:6–7; (2) lying about our nature, saying that we have no sin, 1:8; (3) lying about our [...]

  Jesus spoke of ‘persecutions’ coming upon his followers (Matt. 5:10-12; 10:23). This is best understood as the domestic hostility in family and synagogue caused by conversion to a new faith. Jesus did ‘not come to bring peace, but a sword’ (Matt. 10:34), dividing households and causing financial and social loss to his followers. Because [...]

Galatians 6:1-10 Bear One Another’s Burdens 6 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 3 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he [...]