Pastor Tom's Tidbits https://tj.durangoherald.com/section/columnists-pastor-toms-tidbits/feed/ Latest local news from The Durango Herald. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:24:53 -0600 en-us 30 https://tj.durangoherald.com/change-your-nature-to-gain-control-over-want-sin/ Human misery stands a good chance of lasting as long as the sun shines until people decide that their want no longer matters enough to control life. Hear these words from the Book of Genesis: Adam made love to his... Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:50:19 -0600 0C738111-0C71-46FB-B868-04C2EE51661E https://tj.durangoherald.com/toms-tidbits-the-journey-to-new-jerusalem/ We take seven journeys through life. We leave home – our personal Garden of Eden – and find ourselves freed like God freed the Israelites from oppressive Egypt. Then we enter a wilderness journey, where we must learn about the... Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:39:03 -0700 02273BC2-C6D9-48FB-92F2-E96E3F9100BA https://tj.durangoherald.com/our-fifth-journey-entering-the-promised-land/ After humanity found itself expelled from the Garden of Eden, after God freed the Israelites from ancient Egyptian oppression by performing cosmic warfare against Egyptian gods, magicians, and Pharaoh, God and Moses led the Israelites into the wilderness. Over time,... Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:56:31 -0700 9296D7B8-525B-4AAA-A6DF-63A9A9F90ED0 https://tj.durangoherald.com/freedoms-journey-leads-into-the-wilderness/ Biblical literature teaches that we all take seven journeys in life. Which journey are you on? Two months ago I wrote about our first journey in life – “Welcome to the Garden of Eden.” This journey begins with our birth... Thu, 30 Oct 2014 22:18:49 -0600 1D5D09FC-FB4A-4B32-BC81-11D752FEA8D5 https://tj.durangoherald.com/the-passover-journey-learning-hard-lessons-of-life/ We take seven journeys in life. Last month I wrote about our first journey, “Welcome to the Garden of Eden,” where we begin growing up and leave the buoyancy of infancy and adolescence and move into a world of adult... Thu, 02 Oct 2014 21:13:39 -0600 1702A3F5-8244-4A49-8161-83F927C766E4 https://tj.durangoherald.com/our-first-journey-in-and-out-of-the-garden-of-eden/ Imagine yourself standing in a field filled with bushes and trees surrounding you. You look down, seeing your bare feet. It occurs to you that not just your feet look bare. All of you looks bare. What might be your... Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:23:10 -0600 FC8F9347-E161-4366-9024-B6FAED521975 https://tj.durangoherald.com/the-seven-journeys-of-life/ Whether we like it or not, expect taking seven journeys through life; and, each journey bears a name: We call Journey No. 1: “I find myself with someone I don’t know in a place I don’t recall, and I don’t... Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:21:44 -0600 0AEB7104-291E-418E-8638-793DE0EBC381 https://tj.durangoherald.com/bible-doesnt-paint-life-by-numbers-use-your-mind-heart-and-soul/ Some lessons our parents never taught us. Consider not getting those lessons a parental oversight, or consider those missing lessons as lessons our parents never learned in the first place. Surprisingly, parents really never knew everything as we young children... Thu, 22 May 2014 21:54:51 -0600 4866C2AA-F718-40D9-B335-646AE4BF2F29