Living Above the Sun Ministries

Late last night I was reading through Deuteronomy in the Bible. I would say if there is one book to really zero in on to learn how to live a successful, disciplined, and structured life, it’s Deuteronomy. A common theme and phrase repeated over and over throughout the book is “…teach this to your children and grandchildren…” We tend to take grace today, and toss the rest of it out the window! Jesus’ death fulfilled Levitical law of sacrifice, but His death didn’t nullify the Old Testament or the outline for living right and the things that God directly said, "pass this down generation after generation." God has always just wanted obedience more than sacrifice. Moreover, all the New Testament points back and references the Old Testament. Paul’s words are nothing new on the block. His messages in the Pauline letters can be traced back to ideas Moses said….it all came from GOD, the inspiration to scripture. Jesus Himself confesses He was the Word from the beginning. A section of...

"All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction , that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope . Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction , on whom the end of the ages has come." -2 Timothy 3:16-17; Romans 15:4; 1 Corinthians 10:11 Happy 2020! My first post of the new year, go figure, huh? It's the time of year when everyone is feeling cute, and unstoppable, on top of things; we've made our resolutions, determined to be better than we were two days ago, two months ago, two years ago. While I don't really make resolutions anymore, on a personal level I can tell you that I've made a lot of progress the past two years. It's not been ...