Reflecting back to 1987, my junior year of high school, I can recall my main priorities, gas for my mustang, a new outfit to hit the weekend parties with, and ample hairspray for the big hair....
Are you busy? You Should Rest. The Bible, in Exodus 20, commands us to rest or Sabbath: to cease work for planned and deliberate periods of time. The punishment for not resting under Old Testament law was death. It’s intere...
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Dustin Boles | Pastor of Mosaic Church in Ocean SpringsThe Ocean Springs Gazette
Another Baby Sermon As a new father, I have felt a whole new level of conviction to be the kind of man that my son deserves his dad to be.
This heavy-duty self-examination occurs daily, and to be honest, I ...
Feb 03, 2012 | 0 | 6 |
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Dustin Boles | Pastor of Mosaic Church in Ocean SpringsThe Ocean Springs Gazette
God’s Message for the Unemployed Many people are looking for work, and some have been looking for a long time.
The Bible has only harsh words for those who will not work, but to those who are trying and just have not f...
Jan 20, 2012 | 0 | 8 |
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Dustin Boles | Pastor of Mosaic Church in Ocean SpringsThe Ocean Springs Gazette
Don’t Confuse God’s Word in 2012 My wife and I are both doing a “through the Bible” reading plan for 2012, but we’re using a free app called You Version Bible.
As we go through Genesis, we talk about the different pass...
Jan 13, 2012 | 0 | 7 |
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Dustin Boles, Pastor of Mosaic Church of Ocean SpringsThe Ocean Springs Gazette
Confrontation: Making the Tough Call I hate hurting people’s feelings. I do not like to make people uncomfortable. That being said, I have learned over the years that we all must be courageous and strong to make the tough call. I...
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Dustin Boles, Pastor of Mosaic Church of Ocean SpringsThe Ocean Springs Gazette
God Has Rhythm By Dustin Boles We have all seen people who have no rhythm. Your watching some guy on the dance floor. He is a half beat off from the song and everyone else. He has no idea that you are watching him and painful...
BOOK REVIEW "Heaven is for Real" Colton Burpo's father, a small town pastor in Nebraska, tells the story about his four year old son Colton's visit to heaven during emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix. Colton was a v...
There is an email going around that contains a slide show of the church signs of two different churches that are in the same town. On their signs they are having an argument over whether or not d...
We Christians have a lot of words we like to throw around and we just assume that everyone knows what we mean. We use words like trinity, sanctification, tithe, and the big daddy of them all… salv...
This is the question that leads to many of our temptations. Many times we think we are tempted to go after things that are better than what we have or things we do not have at all. This is ...
I have heard - maybe thousands of times – people say that they do to go to church because they do not want to be a hypocrite. What they mean is that they have sin in their lives and going to c...
One of the most attended days in the year of any church is Easter. Most churches plan a huge program that is designed to be welcoming to those who have not been in a while and to help them und...
Have you ever noticed that after a while sin seems to lose its fun? When it does most of us either find new sins or find ways to enhance the sins we already have. After a while sin, in additi...