Tag: Devos 10-19
19. What Does it Mean to ‘Wash One Another’s Feet’, and Why It’s Not Totally Gross.
“Whose Feet Do I Want to Wash?” is probably a question we don’t ask a whole lot. It kind of ranks up there with “Which one of my eyes do I want to poke with this stick?” or “Which Star Wars Prequel should I watch?” But in fact, Christ tells us to wash other peoples’ [...]
March 27th, 201218. What’s So Wrong With the Phrase “Be True to Yourself”?
One of the most bogus phrases in movies and society is “Be true to yourself”. The other most bogus phrase is “delicious salad”. How many times have you seen some commercial, TV show or movie where the wise person tells the one who is searching for answers, “Be true to yourself”. While that sounds like [...]
March 23rd, 201217. Does God want me to stay or go?
Sometimes we get stuck in a situation where we don’t know if God is pushing us out or just wants to grow our patience. For example, let’s say you have this totally annoying boss. Should you interpret that as God wanting you to quit that job, or is God simply growing your patience? What if [...]
March 20th, 201216. Pray for a Democrat/Republican, Exes, Enemies? Yeah, right.
It’s really easy to get lost in politics. How often do we demonize people of the opposing party? Democrats want to kill babies. Republicans want to kill the poor. The Americans on the other side of the aisle aren’t really even our enemies — that would be Iran, North Korea, Voldemort, and George Lucas. Okay, [...]
March 16th, 201214. How Do I Worship God More? (Part 5): How Can I Make Sure I’m Not Just Worshipping God on Sundays?
Yeah, I’m sure you’re aware of people who think Sundays are for God and worship – then the rest of the week is for non-God stuff like work, mowing the lawn, and cleaning up the dog’s poop. Even though we try to avoid that thinking, we end up living like that. Especially the part about [...]
March 7th, 201213. How Do I Worship God More? (Part 4): How Can I Work on Wrong Things I Worship?
We all are trying to worship God but we end up worshipping other things all the time. But like a lot of things in life, things just naturally happen and we don’t necessarily realize what we’re doing is wrong. Like spreading the flu or having body odor, or listening to smooth jazz. (This is a [...]
March 2nd, 201212. How Do I Worship God More? (Part 3): How Can I Spot When I Replace Him with Other Stuff?
We were created to worship God. Unfortunately we end up worshipping other things – like money, celebrities, and in my case… pancakes. Since we were created to worship God, what happens when we don’t worship Him? Do we not worship anything? No. We replace it with something else. Now you might be telling yourself, that [...]
February 28th, 201211. How Do I Worship God More? (Part 2): What are the Different Parts of Worship?
I see a lot of times at churches, they’ll have ‘Sunday School’ and then a ‘Worship Service’, or people referring to the singing portion as ‘Praise and Worship’. Using the word ‘worship’ in these different ways certainly can get confusing. Heck, I get confused just telling the difference between the communion tray and the offering [...]
February 24th, 201210. How Do I Worship God More? (Part 1): How Did God Set Up The World?
We Christians throw the term worship around a whole ton. The first thing people associate with the term worship is singing in church. If that’s the case, and let’s be honest here, some of people around us, their singing could hardly be called worship. Their singing could hardly be called singing. It either sounds like [...]
February 22nd, 201227. Filling the Voids in Your Life
Let’s face it, kids can be little goblins sometimes. If you have kids all you have to do is look at the back seat of your car. It’s like bowling alley floor back there. Food wrappers everywhere. Fries in every crevice. A three month old melted Snickers bar in the cup holder giving birth to [...]
February 16th, 2011
98. Thanksgiving (Part 1): Yeah, Don't Complain. Now What?
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