Thank you loyal readers…I want to warn you this one is a more lengthy than normal…I apologize 🙂 The dreadful words no parent likes to hear when they are traveling…”Are we there yet?”. The first few time we courteously respond saying no buddy, we have quite a ways to go. After the 100th time, we […]
It’s easy to waste the hours of our day in either the past or the future and live only a fraction of that day in the present. I have caught myself many times drifting off from the reality of the present. We might be worried about what will take place tomorrow or the preparations for […]
One of the magnificent things about Christ was that he was as John said “..full of grace and truth…” He was the perfect fulfillment of each. He could love with no bounds and yet not condone the sins of the people. Remember the account of the woman caught in adultery? She was caught in the […]
Three simple words that can change the world by shaping our lives as Christians. It makes for a wonderful pattern of how to worship in Spirit and in Truth. KNOW […]
When we become a Christian, I believe there is a dangerous temptation that lurks and tries to stifle the Glory of the Lord. It has to do with the completeness of our testimony. I would suggest there are 4 ways in which the enemy tempts our flesh to lessen the Lord’s glory: First, we generally […]
If you’re like me, you’ve asked the question at some point, “Why don’t you just make me obey God?”. There are times that I’m so sick of my sin that I just want Him to take it all and make me obey. I mean He has the power to do anything, why not do […]
Just do it What a great marketing slogan..After years it still stirs up excitement and causes us to ask the question, Do what? James could have been the poster child for this slogan. Check out James 1:22-25 (ESV) below: But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a […]
As a pastor who counsels others from scripture, I repeatedly hear questions beginning with “Why”. Why do I keep being rejected by others? Why did I lose my job? Why did God allow me to be abused? As someone, who spent years trying to figure out the answer to all of myWhy questions, I came […]
Romans 5:1-5(ESV) Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and […]
As a Christian, we have a tendency to bombard our selves with the question of “Am I doing the right things?”. Christ on the other hand has a different way of looking at the same issue. He asks, “Who do you say and live that I am?”; A strange question that even grammatically doesn’t sound […]