Tag Archives: salvation

Sifting through the Ashes

Posted on March 27, 2024 by Doc Arnett

Old bits of rusted metal are drawn from the ashes of a burn pile like sinners are drawn to Christ. Continue reading →

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Just As I Am

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Doc Arnett

It has been nearly sixty years but I still recall the joy I felt when I was baptized in a small church in western Kentucky. Continue reading →

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Beyond the Madness

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Doc Arnett

If lots of good practice makes a difference in a basketball game, how much more in the game of life? Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, College, Spiritual Contemplation, Sports | Tagged choices, grace, losing, March madness, salvation, winning, wise choices | Comments Off

Prayer for the Lord’s Day

Posted on February 19, 2017 by Doc Arnett

With his resurrection upon the first day of the week, Christ established a New Sabbath… and gave a new hope to the world. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Poetry, Prayer, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged glory, heaven, hope, Jesus, praise, redemption, resurrection, sacrifice, salvation, Savior | Comments Off

I’ve Felt Worse…

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Doc Arnett

Having someone to help you when you’re sick is a wonderful blessing. Having someone save you from Hell is even more of one. Continue reading →

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Getting Rid of the Stink

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Doc Arnett

As far back as I can remember I’ve had sort of a low-grade phobia about being sprayed by skunks. It was a well-formed fear, with lots of reinforcement. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Family, Farming, Humor, Metaphysical Reflection, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged atonement, burial, Jesus, odor, redemption, relative, sacrifice, salvation, sin, skunk, skunk spray, Son of God, stench, stink | Comments Off

Tough Situation, Easy Decision

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Doc Arnett

I’ve never been in the place of having to make that kind of choice. So far, my medical choices have been pretty simple. Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Christian Living, Death & Dying, Family, Prayer, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged cancer, choices, eternal bliss, hell, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, recovery, salvation, sarcoma, surgery, tough decisions, tumor, tumor removal, vasectomy | Comments Off

The Adopted

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Of course, I believe that all domesticated animals conspire to maximize the expenses of their owners, even going to the point of deliberately contracting various diseases for the primary, even sole purpose of making us spend money on them. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Humor, Nature, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged adopted pets, adoption, animal rescue, rescue, response, salvation, stray kitten | Comments Off

The Gift

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Doc Arnett

Occasionally, though, I’ll get lucky. I’ll actually give someone something he or she doesn’t want to immediately re-gift, re-cycle or indulge his or her pyromanic tendencies. Continue reading →

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Summer Evening

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Doc Arnett

And in these long years since then, that moment when I rose up from the waters, pure and cleansed, every sin purged from God’s great memory, there has not been another moment even remotely like that one. Everything that I was, could be and am becoming, exploded and compressed within me in the same pulse. Continue reading →

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