Man playing piano

Training for Godliness

If you were to ask my parents what they thought of having a pianist for a son, you’d undoubtedly hear the standard boilerplate response. They both love the fact that I’m a musician and they loved having a house filled constantly filled with piano music. But dig down a little deeper and you’d discover from…

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Radical Amputation

Last Sunday’s sermon addressed the issue of lust and how to stop.  Jesus’ answer is surprisingly simple in that he taught that those who do not stop lusting for others place their eternal status in jeopardy.  Bottomline, people who refuse to repent of lusting, leave God no other recourse but to deal it through the…

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Resolved

Now is the time of year when people tend to make resolutions. There is something about the freshness of the new calendar year that inspires a person’s conscience to consider noble life changes of direction; changes that by nature come harder to begin in less remarkable times of the year. Times when we are mostly…