Mere Observations

Articles that are miscellaneous in topic but personal in perspective, commentary, and thoughts from my clergy world and view of life.

• Shed the Past
• Guarding the Heart
• God’s Forgiveness
• Grief to Rejoicing
• Where Peace Begins
• Encouraging Creator
• Don’t Withhold
• Shared Burdens
• How We Speak
• Sharing Joy & Grief
• Word Power
• Awareness
• Facing the Unknown
• God’s Not Against You
• Being Intentional
• A Fulfilled Life
• Helped to Helper
• Seeking God
• Be Kind
• Hurtful Words
• Thinking Right
• Spiritual Investment
• God’s Plan
• Overwhelming Love
• Just Revenge
• Listening vs Talking
• Judging the Heart
• Grumbling
• Contentment
• Quiet Lives
• 5000+ Beach Weddings
• Healing Laughter
• True Religion
• Helping Others Make Sense of Traumatic Events
• Grief to Joy
• Deceased Visitors?
• Worry Wisely
• A World of Trouble
• Purpose of Life
• Letting Anxiety Go
• Trust the Lord
• The Name
• Breaking Family Cycles
• Miracles Take Initiative
• Living in Harmony
• Death is Not a Friend
• As Unique As You
• Enjoy Life
• Secret of Success
• Times of Trouble
• Love is the Fruit
• Good Forever
• Waiting to Die
• Love vs Fear
• Unintended Consequences
• Listen to Others
• Be Happy
• Getting Even
• Don’t Criticize
• Effective Communication
• Better in Eternity
• Personal Responsibility
• Freedom in Truth
• The Lord’s Leading
• Making Peace
• Plan of Redemption
• Cycle of Life
• Power of Patience
• Experience to Share
• Healing Words
• Stay in Your Lane
• Come Together
• Funeral Sermon
• Graveside Ceremony Helps
• Keep Your Peace
• A New Day
• Time Waits for No One
• Good Character
• If Intimidation Happens
• Self Care
• Memorial Day
• Dying Strong for Family
• Ask for More
• No Surprise at Trials
• God Sees
• Blessings of Faith
• Control Your Thoughts
• Keep it Simple
• Death is Certain
• The Hospice Chaplain
• The Neuroscience of Grieving
• The Soos Story
• A Cheerful Heart
• Death Anxiety and Caregivers
• The Durkac Story
• Don’t Die with a Full Heart
• Hospital Chaplain to Hospice Chaplain
• Dying, Death, and Beyond
• 12 Bible Promises to Live By
• Scripture for Ministry to the Grieving
• Aging Saints
• Timeline of Dispensational Pre-Trib Events
• 8 Scriptures to Know for Pastoral Hospital Visits
• Don’t Lose Your Peace
• Appointed Time to Die
• Life’s Standard of Truth
• Time to Start Thinking About Others?
• Grief is an Ocean
• Gladness of Heart
• Heaven is Not for Everyone
• Antichrist, Covenant, and Daniel 9:27
• Common Ground in Pre-Trib vs Post-Trib
• Why Seven Year Tribulation?
• Ways to Say Goodbye
• Grief Over Time
• Advance Directives for Medical Care
• Why Bad Things Happen
• John 13:13-17 – Is Foot Washing Necessary?
• Is Rudeness a Sign of the Times?
• Jimmy Buffett and the Obvious
• Things You Did At First
• Helping Children Grieve
• Question Yourself in Grief
• A Simpler Spiritual Assessment
• Hope Beyond Death
• CPR, DNR, and Letting Go
• A Pastor is a Shepherd
• Hospital Etiquette for Pastors
• Scripture for Hospital Visitation
• Our Blessed Hope
• When Your World Shatters
• Spiritual Crisis
• Grief Support Playlist
• When Someone is Dying
• No One Remembers
• How to Care for Your Spirit
• ABC’s of the Gospel
• Love Beyond Death
• Objectives & Strategies for Grievers
• Death Notification and Children
• Stages of Grief
• Types of Grief
• Styles of Grief
• Physician’s Guide to Death Notification
• The Three Angels of Revelation
• Theology of Pastoral Ministry
• Former SDA Facebook Groups
• Revelation 21-22 — Study Highlights
• Spiritual Self-Care?
• Revelation 19:11-20:15 — Study Highlights
• Church Purposes & Governing Values
• CrossHope Chapel
• Revelation 17:1-19:10 — Study Highlights
• Happy Independence Day
• Trials Common to Mankind
• Revelation 15-16 — Study Highlights
• Harmony With Others
• Happy Mother’s Day
• Revelation 14 — Study Highlights
• Matthew 12:40 and 3 Days in the Tomb?
• Revelation 13 — Study Highlights
• Revelation 12 — Study Highlights
• Revelation 8:6-11:19 — Study Highlights
• Revelation 7:1-8:5 — Study Highlights
• Revelation 6 — Study Highlights
• Love His Appearing
• Michael the Archangel, Jesus?
• Happy New Year!
• A Brief Reflection on Christmas
• End of Life Spiritual Strength
• Revelation 4-5 — Study Highlights
• Revelation 3 — Study Highlights
• Revelation 2 — Study Highlights
• Revelation 1 — Study Highlights
• Post Resurrection Appearances of Jesus
• Pandemic, Western Church, & Simpler Community
• Closing Scenes in Matthew
• 59 and Thinking
• Signs of the End
• Staying Focused on Jesus
• Workers in the Vineyard
• Revelation — Study Highlights
• Keep About Your Work
• After the Wedding and 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
• Reasons for Vow Renewals
• The Post-Trib Rapture: A Sequence of Events
• No Church in Revelation 4-21?
• Conflict Assessment Tool
• Bridal Reviews of my Officiating Services
• John 20:12 and The Easter Story
• On Evangelism, Witnessing, and The Great Commission
• When Organic Church Goes Bad
• Sand Ceremony Words
• Mark 16:18 and Handling Serpents
• Let’s Stop Fretting
• Isaiah 7:14 and The Virgin Birth?
• Missing Verses?
• Christians, Politics, and Satan’s Work
• Edith Waugh, Death, and Maranatha
• Revelation 13:11 and The United States of America?
• I Feel Like An Orphan
• NIV, ESV, and Translations
• When Brides Get Bamboozled
• God Knows, Even the Hairs of your Head
• Premarital Conflict Assessment
• Approaching the Apocalypse
• Popery, Antichrist, & Reformers
• Luke 16:19-31 and Story of Lazarus?
• The Mom I Knew
• Love in Marriage
• Irene H. Durkac
• Revelation 1:10 and The Lord’s Day?
• Matthew 24:34 and This Generation?
• Revelation 3:10 and Pre-Tribulation Proof?
• Revelation: Flow of History or For the Future?
• Dear Small Church Pastor
• The Lord Among the Churches
• Questions on Why Sin?
• Not Returning to Church After COVID-19?
• Leslie B. Waugh, Sr.
• What is the Beast and 666?
• Will a COVID Vaccine be the Mark of the Beast?
• Vaccine and The Mark of the Beast
• The Law of Moses?
• Payton is Graduating!
• 50 Bible Promises for your Problems
• No Official Church Membership?
• Will COVID-19 Change American Church?
• Coronavirus, Anxiety, and Hebrews 13:8
• Revelation: Shortly Come to Pass?
• The Post-Coronavirus Church
• 1 Samuel 17:11 and Fear in the Camp?
• 2 Timothy 1:7 and Spirit of Fear
• Psalm 91 and the Coronavirus?
• The Coronavirus and Psalm 91
• What to Say to a Suicide Survivor
• When is Sunset?
• Where at Beach?
• The Bible is…
• Facing Trials
• What About Us Old Guys?
• Covenant Marriage Ceremony?
• The End is Near
• What About Unclean Foods?
• Do You Have A Life Verse?
• John 10:10 and Political Contention
• Genesis 6:1-4 and Sons of God?
• 2 Peter 2:4 and Angels in Darkness?
• Marriage License Requirement & Information?
• Romans 11:26 and Spiritual Israel?
• Organic Pastor in Simple Church
• Asked to Officiate a Friend’s Ceremony?
• What Changed for Getting Married in Alabama?
• Wedding Ceremony YouTube Videos?
• Luke 23:43 and Today in Paradise?
• 10 Effects of Sin in Genesis 3
• Want to Write Your Wedding Vows?
• Louis S. Durkac
• Order of Vows and Wedding Ceremony?
• Blended Family Ideas for Beach Weddings?
• Beach Wedding Sand Ceremony?
• 1 Peter 3:7 and Weaker Vessel?
• Best Time to Start Beach Ceremony?
• Communion Service in Ceremony?
• Walk by Faith
• Lake of Fire and Loss of Consciousness?
• The Millennium: A Sequence of Events
• Matthew 10:28 and Destroying the Soul?
• Premarital Counseling?
• Creation Time and 1000 Year Days
• Days of Creation
• God Said
• Reasons for Vow Renewal Ceremonies?
• The Blessed Hope?
• The Schemes of the Devil?
• Amir Tsarfati and Michael the Archangel?
• Spinning, Redefining, and Hiding Truth
• “I will be with You”
• War in Heaven?
• The Grandma Story
• The Hyphenated Christian
• 2 Peter 2:6 and Hell Fire?
• 1 Timothy 2:12 and Women Teaching?
• 12 Statements of Advice to a New Pastor
• Advice to a Church Planter on a Theology of Pastoral Ministry
• The Sabbath as Seal of God?
• Sealing Work of the Holy Spirit
• The Seal of God?
• At The Last Day?
• Death in the Millennium?
• Walking in the World, but not as the World
• Symbols in the Bible
• Numbers in the Bible
• Sabbath = Messiah
• Why Clemson Won
• Top 5 Posts in 2018
• Top 10 Classic, Rock, Country, Reggae, Ska Songs In My Christmas Playlist
• My Top 25 Spotify Songs in 2018
• Why Not to Start a House Church
• Dear Step-Siblings