I wrote a column called “Weekend Bible Reflections With Jon” for The Calhoun Times, the local newspaper in Calhoun, GA. The column was designed to help the readers personally understand and apply Scripture to their lives. Here is where you can read the column. This is where I also turn a lot of my sermons which I’ve preached into blog posts. I hope you find these writings spiritually beneficial.
Did the women actually go to the wrong tomb, find it empty, assume Jesus had risen from the dead, and then either hallucinate or make up their encounters with the angels and Jesus himself and tell those stories to the disciples? Or did the women go to the wrong tomb, find it empty, and tell the disciples that Jesus’ tomb was empty, resulting in the disciples deciding to fabricate the story of Jesus’ resurrection?… Read More Did The Women Go To The Wrong Tomb?
It’s not human nature to like correction. Think about it. When was the last time you woke up and said, “Today is going to be a great day, because today’s the day I’m going to ask people if I’m doing anything wrong and how I can be better!” … Read More Do You Like to be Corrected?
We’ve all been there. You’re talking with someone and you can only get maybe half a sentence out before they’re interrupting you and telling you their thoughts about the matter (or changing the subject to something else entirely). Maybe they continually try to finish your sentence for you and they’re always way off in their guess about what you were about to say. Maybe they’re the type of person that, no matter what, will always end up dominating the conversation and you always find yourself relegated to standing there and saying nothing while they talk on and on. Frustrating, isn’t it?… Read More Do You Think Things Through?
Foolish people think they’re right all the time. That’s why they’re fools. Don’t be like them. Choose humility and open-mindedness…and be wise.… Read More “The Way of a Fool Is Right in His Own Eyes…”
Let’s have as a top priority the spiritual best interests of our brothers and sisters in Christ, as well as their wives or girlfriends and husbands or boyfriends who would appreciate it if we didn’t place a temptation to lust in their path. Let’s set the proper example to non-believers also. Let’s glorify God with what we wear.… Read More “I See The Girls Walk By Dressed In Their Summer Clothes…”
Christianity — the gospel — calls on us to remember our heritage…and embrace it.… Read More The Church’s Heritage
Christian brothers and sisters, how often do we think about the fact that there is a day coming in which every one of us will individually stand before the throne of God and be judged by Jesus Christ?… Read More “We Make It Our Aim To Please Him”
Christians, as you go about your life, are you trying to convert people to Christ? If not, why not? Put another way, do you love the lost enough to share the gospel with them? Do you love your church family enough to both edify them and help them grow by sharing the gospel with the lost? Do you love your Lord Messiah enough to do what he told you to do? Do you love your own soul enough to share the good news with others?… Read More Do I Love My Church Family…And The Lost…Enough To Share the Gospel With Others?
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