It has certainly been a while since my last post, but the past couple months have been a blur. A little over 2 weeks ago my my family and I traveled to North Carolina to see family and then to South Carolina for Bethany Free Will Baptist's Homecoming. The speaker for this year was a little dry, but the food and fellowship was definitely one of the highlights of the trip (In case you haven't figured out, I was the speaker). There is much I would like to post, and perhaps soon enough, I will. For now, I am going to impart some key information from a message series I have been preaching on Sunday evenings. No, it is not a David Jeremiah series or some type of Bible based curriculum. It is simply from personal study. Now, I realize that in almost every case there is truly no such thing as “original ideas.” Someone may have a different approach, a certain way of looking at an idea, or a specific truth and in turn making it unique, but we don't