Author Archive: Kevin
You’re Told to do This 80 Times!
The phrase “one another” occurs 146 times in the Bible. Almost all of the Old Testament occurrences are negative or descriptive, not relational. Whereas over 80 occurrences in the New Testament are telling us to treat one another positively such…
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Can I watch TV and play video games all the time?
God gave you life for a reason. The reason is not just to pay bills and eat, nor to just watch TV and play video games (although some of that is OK). The wisest man who ever lived, Solomon,…
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Monsters Need Love Too
Years ago I didn’t want to see the 2001 Pixar Animation Studios movie Monsters, Inc. However, I went anyway and was glad I did. The “monsters in the closet” were scary and real to little children, however as the movie…
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Getting on the same page as God
Prayers are answered favorably when you and God are on the same page. Let’s face it, we are greedy and selfish. Really. We want things, we want them now, and we get upset when we don’t get them. We complain…
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People Today Be Like…
While reading in the book of Hebrews, I came to this verse: “Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord” Hebrews 12:14 I got to thinking about our culture lately, and that most…
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Prayer, Trusting God, and an Engine
I’m working on a new book: “How to Glorify God”, so posts here are going to be a little sparse as I spend time working on the book. One of the ways to glorify God is praying. And, one of…
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Is Work a Gift?
Our Heavenly Father is a wonderful gift giver. In the first few chapters of the Bible in Genesis we see three main gifts to us. He gives us this incredible earth to live our life, and to enjoy. From it,…
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What are Swadling Clothes & Manger?
“And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.” (Luke 2:12) Two words jump out at me in that passage: “swaddling cloths”, and “manger”. We have heard that…
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4 Rules to Leaving a Voicemail
The phone rang just as our family sat down for dinner. I picked it up and heard “Is Kallee there?” spoken by a boy in his late teens. “Yes”. I said and promptly hung up the phone. Phone manners have…
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Be In Him
“As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.” Colossians 2:6-7 In that passage, the…
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