A former member of the Highland SDA Church writes “Sabbath Thoughts” a couple times a month. These blog posts are meant to draw the reader closer to God and to encourage contemplation of various Christian topics.
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Frustration
I am not overweight. However, if I want to continue wearing the same clothing I’ll have to do something! Today, once we arrived home, I typed into a calorie tracker […]
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Our Message is the Same
Sometimes the Lord leads us into situations we would not have chosen for ourselves. We don’t like to be singled out or to feel awkward. Today was one of those […]
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God Wins Over Anxiety
Well… not as early as Darryl’s mornings usually are but early for me (woke at 4:30 couldn’t get back to sleep). Anxiety, like pride, cannot always be seen from […]
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Hidden Sin
Have you ever prayed to God to make your sins known to you? I have had mixed success with this prayer, which probably hinges on the spirit in which I […]
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A Chronic Case of “Me”
Ryan and I were discussing how to determine what activities were ok on Sabbath and what are not (as per some of our discussion in church today, spoiler: we didn’t […]
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Trusting the Spirit
You know how some things kind of blind side you… it doesn’t necessarily have to be something bad, just an eye-opening experience. Well that was my afternoon today. I had […]
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Fruit of the Spirit
I’ve begun reading an old Sabbath School quarterly companion book titled “The Fruit of the Spirit.” During the modest time I’ve been awake this afternoon, yes… read back a week […]
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Thoughts from Goshen
You’d be surprised by the amount of thinking you can do between Goshen and Staunton. We buried my friend Irene’s ashes (today would have been her 62nd birthday) by a […]
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The Lord is Coming Soon?
As per our discussion today, the Lord IS coming soon. Talking about this topic made me think about how much more I should be studying the Word than what I […]
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Happy Sabbath
I remember when I first started to attend the SDA church people would say “Happy Sabbath” to me. And I thought… what strangeness is this? When I attended the Presbyterian […]