October 2023

Don’t Just Look Clean | Hebrews 9:1-14 by Shane Callicutt • October 13, 2023 • 16 min read • 0

Have you ever wanted to give up? That one thing that keeps rearing its head just happened again. Once again you feel the guilt and shame. Once again you feel inadequate. Once again, you question why…

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When Should a Person Be Labeled a Heretic? by Shane Callicutt • October 4, 2023 • 8 min read • 0

Heresy! It's no secret to anyone who is active in the Christian social media world that there are "ministries" that live exclusively on YouTube who have dedicated their social media lives to hunting…

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Jesus is Better or Best? | Hebrews 8:1-13 by Shane Callicutt • October 2, 2023 • 15 min read • 0

The other day I heard a grammar nazi explain the proper use of better and best. The example given was this. The phrase, may the best man win, is only applicable in situations where more than two men…

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Perfect, Indestructible, Effective | Hebrews 7:11-28 by Shane Callicutt • September 19, 2023 • 13 min read • 1

Let’s begin with an admission. This section of Hebrews is very… Hebrew. Basically from here to the end of chapter eight, the author dug in hard on the matter of the priesthood. Frankly, I’ve been…

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Should a Pastor Deny Baptism? by Shane Callicutt • September 6, 2023 • 12 min read • 0

Recently I shared a few thoughts on Facebook that received a little honest pushback. Here's what I shared. One of our long-time church members responded and said she never read such a thing in the…

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Shout of Joy by Shane Callicutt • September 5, 2023 • 1 min read • 0

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A Generous People by Shane Callicutt • August 24, 2023 • 5 min read • 0

While studying Melchizedek, it was almost impossible to not think about tithing. The very first tithe ever mentioned in Scripture is mentioned along with the first (and last) appearance of…

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Who is Melchizedek? | Hebrews 7:1-10 by Shane Callicutt • August 22, 2023 • 13 min read • 4

This entry in our series will likely be a signpost article that you can bookmark for future reference as we move forward. I probably won’t reexplain these things in the future, but instead, refer you…

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Jesus Loves Figs by Shane Callicutt • August 10, 2023 • 5 min read • 0

I love figs. My parents had a fig tree in the backyard. My mama would make strawberry-fig preserves with those figs. There was a time when we grew strawberries too, so sometimes those preserves came…

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God’s Double-Promise | Hebrews 6:13-20 by Shane Callicutt • August 9, 2023 • 9 min read • 1

Full assurance is hard to come by. With the advent of Chat GPT, deep-fakes, and, broadly speaking, artificial intelligence in general, comes deep erosion of what little trust might have remained in…

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