Monthly Archives: October 2021

A few years back, I came across a couple verses that were very familiar to me. I probably memorized them in Vacation Bible School or Sunday School when I was a kid. Isaiah 55:8-9 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Sometimes when we read the Bible, the verses are just verses. Familiar or not, we just continue reading and move on to the next. Then there are times, seemingly out of nowhere, the verses are like someone shining a bright light in our eyes. You say, “Whoa! What was that?” Then we…

When I think of sin, I think of what my pastor has been telling us for years now. Sin is rebellion. Rebellion against God, plain and simple. And, while I agree with that wholeheartedly, it would benefit us or at least it has benefitted me to look further at what sin is. We know that it’s disobedience. We know that sin is hurtful to everyone it touches, both directly and those on the periphery. We know that its consequences reach far beyond the time of the act(s). It can penetrate future generations. We know that sin always results in death, in one form or another, both in the short term and the long. Sin is the cause of every weed in your…