Fellow brothers and sisters in Christ: I continue to pray for you as you shine the light of Christ in darkness. Oh how alone the enemy tries to make us feel as followers of Christ. Thoughts prevade, am I the only one who cares? Am I really making a difference? Is it really worth it? […]
When we truly submit to God, we eventually reach a point where we have seen the hand of God so many times that we simply cannot deny His presence. There are events that happen that clearly point back to His sovereign grace. They cannot be explained by coincidence or science. This morning I’d love the […]
One of my favorite answers to give someone when they ask about how I know God is real is, “Come, taste and see”. Too many times as Christians we feel like we have to have the perfect answers to “convert” others from death to life in that moment or explain our entire walk with God […]
Being the single-threader male that I am, I love finishing a project so much so that sometimes I go back and visit the completed task and rejoice that “it is finished”. I may do that several times enjoying it more each time I see it. Guys you know what I’m talking about 🙂 There is […]
Several of us have experienced the storms of life and we approach it not unlike the disciples in Matthew 8:23-27 (ESV) And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. […]
I remember attending a well known training years ago where I learned that our maturation process begins at the stage of dependence, then transitions to independence, and finally arrives at interdependence. I see God’s process as a different paradigm all together. Maturing in Christ begins when we give up our perceived independence, embrace our dependence, […]
Read Who am I? – Part 1 Yesterday I shared that you must determine your identity if you are to understand your purpose. I spent many days/years wondering if I was really doing what God wanted me to do. Day after day I’d sit in front of my computer screen thinking about how I’m not […]
This is a question that plagues most of us at some point during our lifetime. For Christians it’s even more intense as it is often connected to the question, “Am I doing what God wants me to be doing”. These questions point us to one word…Identity. Over time the word identity has come to include […]
If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food,and one of you says to them “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead […]
Oh, it’s common to hear pride comes before the fall, but what comes before pride? Could it be perhaps submission? Submission to the flesh or submission to God? As I was reading James 4 today my attention was brought to one little phrase in verse 7, “Submit yourselves therefore to God”. This implies that we […]