Reagan Reflects

   Have you ever gone to those restaurants that don’t give free refills? Annoying right? Just like when you do something that's supposed to help you, and it just ends up draining you. It's like drinking out of an empty cup. You're still doing the act of sipping, but you're still thirsty.  Another way to explain is that after a long run, your body needs water. Instead, you choose to drink a big cup of Diet Pepsi. You're fine for the time being, but you're eventually going to be thirsty again. This analogy remindsme of the bible story about the woman at the well. In case you don’t know the story, a woman goes to visit a well and Jesus, who is sitting there, asks for a drink. If she were a Samaritan and he was a jew, he had zero business talking to her. She questions why he was speaking to her, and he replies, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him,m and he would have given you living water.” “Sir,” the woman...

  I’m not sure if I really have to clarify this or if everyone is just in denial about it, but there is only one true God. Whether I believe it or refuse to acknowledge it. He has been here, now, then, and forever.  He has dupes and temu versions of him. It’s just not the same. How do I know? Because people have tried since the beginning of time to replace him, or pretend not to hear his voice, nothing compares. I was reading the Book of 1 Kings, and I really see why He is the one true God. The new king and queen of Israel, Queen Jezebel (not the same Jezebel I checked) and King Ahab, ruled over the kingdom. Jezebel convinced her husband to worship the idol Baal, and it eventually spread to the entire kingdom, and they were all worshipping Baal. All except one man, Elijah. Elijah believed in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and encouraged others around him to get back to the God of our ancestors. They were so convinced that Baal was god that they didn’t believe them. So E...

  The Prodigal Son is one of the most popular parables Jesus told. I’m sure as I’m writing this, someone is right now preaching about the exact same thing. Just in case you don’t know, the prodigal son goes like this: A man had two sons. One of the sons came to him and said, “ Father, give me all that was promised to me. His father gives him his share, and the boy leaves for another country. He spends his entire fortune buying houses and friends, and once all the money is gone, so are all his friends and the things he bought. He was forced to work in the pig pen and ate what the pigs ate. Sitting in the pen, he decides that being a servant to his father is better because at least he would eat better food. He goes to his father and tells him he will be his servant. His father then rejoices and tells his servants to give him the best robe, ring, and to give him the best calf. He later throws a celebration to celebrate his son being alive. I know that's not the entire parable, but I’m...

  The number one question that people ask Christians is: How is Christianity different from other religions? What you choose to believe vs what is actually true are 2 different things. But every time I hear this question, it makes me think about the Christian doctrine. I call it that because when doing research on it, I come across an extensive amount of similarities with Judaism as a whole. (Other religions as well, but I'm discussing Judaism because that’s the main one.) Reading the bible, you'll notice that a lot of the laws and holidays they celebrate, we also observe. We bring up commandments that were given to the people of Israel during theOld Testamentt. The sabbath rest, for example. It is argued by many theologians whether or not Christians should observe the sabbath.  The sabbath was allegedly broken by Jesus, in the book of Matthew, to feed his hungry disciples. The Pharisees were enraged because he was “ breaking the sabbath. Jesus reminds them of the time David ...