Darkened Glass Reflections

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  • God With Us, and Us With God (Revisited)

    God With Us, and Us With God (Revisited)

    Jesus is “God-with-us.” My mission in 2016 is to be “Mike-with-God.”

  • The Liebster Award

    The Liebster Award

    Thomas, from Motivation of Christian Love and Christenfindenruhe, has nominated my blog for the Liebster Award. It is an interesting prize that bloggers on WordPress have been awarding each other recently: We take the opportunity to acknowledge the blogs we read, and give each other an opportunity to share a little bit about what makes…

  • Scripture Sabbath Challenge—Matthew 16:13–19

    Scripture Sabbath Challenge—Matthew 16:13–19

    This is the believer’s authority: To offer God’s forgiveness to a lost and dying world. To proclaim to sinners that Jesus died for them and offers eternal life to all who will come to Him. We are not called to proclaim condemnation, but to offer life and hope.

  • Learning and Teaching

    Learning and Teaching

    Thank God that He has provided diverse means of speaking to us through His Word. Some days, we will need to hear from a parable. Other days, He may need to set the law down for us. Let us embrace the grace He has shown by meeting us at our various points of need.

  • Words: The Writer’s Tools

    Profanity is not only unnecessarily offensive: It’s just plain lazy speech. It’s easy to pull one of George Carlin’s “seven words you can’t say on television” out of the hat to express an emotion: It’s more clever to choose a unique combination of words that people will remember. REAL WRITERS are artists who use words…

  • God With Us, and Us With God

    Jesus is “God-with-us.” My mission in 2016 is to be “Mike-with-God.”