David Ruzicka

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  • Why This Pastor Loves 'The Bachelor'

    Why This Pastor Loves 'The Bachelor'

    Oops! Left a word out. Should be, "Why I Love to Ridicule the Bachelor." As the kids say, "my bad!"

  • Christmas Is on Sunday This Year. Should Churches Cancel Worship?

    Christmas Is on Sunday This Year. Should Churches Cancel Worship?

    Every so often, Christmas Day falls on a Sunday. And even though the other 51 weeks a year, churches all across America gather to praise the name of Jesus no matter what, when Sunday and Christmas collide, some churches feel the need to cancel Sunday worship so that the true meaning of Christmas can be experienced in all its fantastic, fabulous glory.

  • I Like Big Buts and I Cannot Lie

    I Like Big Buts and I Cannot Lie

    Hey! If you read that and thought I was writing about something else and some song is stuck in your head, that's on you and your poor music choices! And, I'm sure I have no idea what song that might be … just saying.

  • 12 Important Things to Know About Angels

    12 Important Things to Know About Angels

    I'm starting a message series on Revelation, and there are a few angel references in there. And for many folks, it's easy to pass over the angels. We read like this, "blah blah blah blah angel blah blah blah."

  • How Pirates of the Caribbean Reminds Me of Genesis 27

    How Pirates of the Caribbean Reminds Me of Genesis 27

    As a kid, I heard this crazy story in the Bible about Jacob putting on a goat skin to fool dad (Isaac). I had several thoughts about that: creepy, scratchy, itchy, liar, deceiver, scoundrel (deceiver came from Sunday school lesson — my vocab wasn't that advanced).

  • 5 Points to Understand About Transgenderism

    5 Points to Understand About Transgenderism

    God is still God and in the end, Jesus always gets the last word. So don't panic!

  • 10 Great Things to Know About Joshua!

    10 Great Things to Know About Joshua!

    Joshua was a tough-as-nails, brick-smashing man of God. It's easy to remember God said, "be strong and courageous" to Joshua a bunch, but beyond that most folks might not even know who he was.

  • I'm a Little Drunk and I Need You Now

    I'm a Little Drunk and I Need You Now

    That's one of the lines from the Lady Antebellum song "I Need You Now." The complete line says, "It's a quarter after one, I'm a little drunk and I need you now."

  • Can You Be Christian and a Democrat?

    Can You Be Christian and a Democrat?

    So I've heard some folks really don't like Trump. I get it. He's a proud and unrepentant adulterer, says he's a Christian who's never repented (two mutually exclusive positions), has called about 70 people names just during this primary cycle, and exhibits the emotional maturity of an eight-year-old bully in his speech and on twitter. One anti-Trump hashtag that has made the rounds is #MakeAmerica8Again.

  • 10 Things You Gotta Know About Revelation

    10 Things You Gotta Know About Revelation

    You gotta know these 10 things about Revelation. You just gotta!