Building on the Foundation

  B.O. What do you smell like to other people? Do you smell bad? We wear deodorant, perfume, cologne, and all kinds of other things to avoid the occurrence where someone might accidentally smell a bad odor emanating from our person. We want to smell good to others, especially in a world where the natural odor of the body is all but forgotten.  Just like animals, humans emit pheromones, and those natural odors contain information about us that other humans can interpret. Specific odors carry information about our physical health, our sexual readiness, and even about whether we are male or female.  We wear deodorant, perfume, and cologne to cover natural body odors—because in today’s world, even our God-designed scent is considered unpleasant.  But what if that effort to cover up applies not just physically, but spiritually?  What if, without realizing it, we are masking our spiritual scent in order to blend into the world? Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m thankful fo...

Another topic of curiosity has arisen that I thought would bear some explanation. In some of my posts, you may have noticed that I will occasionally refer to Jesus as Joshua, and unless you are familiar with the reason behind it, you probably thought it was a typo. It's not. I intentionally wrote Joshua instead of or alongside of Jesus. The purpose of this post is to explain why I did so, and part of the explanation stems from the Sacred Name movement. If you aren't familiar with that movement, it's a movement (not relegated to any denomination) that pushes the belief that there is only one correct name for God. Not only that, but there is one correct language to pronounce that name in, and not stopping there, that there is only one correct way to pronounce that name in that language.  What if you don't do all of these things? Well then, God won't hear you or be able to understand you.  Shockingly, their particular group of people is the only one who knows of this t...

 As mentioned previously, the first of the Ten Statements/words is the one that proclaims the authority by which the other 9 immutable laws of the Creator are given. This statement of fact is found in Exodus 20:2 and Deuteronomy 5:6.                                                                     NKJV “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage”                                                            Literal translation “I Am Jehovah your Mighty One which has brought you from [the] land [of] Egypt from [the] house [of] servants”  Here the Creator is introducing Himself by His name–not by the common English...