From the time we are old enough to understand our native language, people were telling us to listen. Every parent tells their child to not run with scissors, play with knives, get too close to the fire, quit hitting your brother or sister, and no, we are not there yet. As we age, we enter […]
Here is my premise for this blog series – making small intentional changes will bring about a huge impact over the long haul. People who study such things, generally say it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert in a field of study or a new skill. While the debate rages concerning how accurate that […]
I love reading old sermons and booklets. Sometimes it is tempting to just stand up on Sunday morning and read the words of these wise saints from long ago. After reading Calvin, Spurgeon, Pink and many others from bygone eras, it crosses my mind that I really have little to share. Before you write me […]
The end of 2012 is upon us. My, that was fast, at least for me. Maybe for you it seemed like it would never end. A great deal has happened for each of us in the past year. Some have suffered great tragedy others not. Some have tasted success, others not so much. We all […]
I know God rested after creation and Jesus said, “It is finished,” but God is still working. Paul states in these two verses a truth that we can bank our souls on: For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philippians […]
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low […]
Sometimes we forget that God is love and He is the one that came up with the whole love idea, not the sin, sick world we live in that has perverted everything. God is the Creator of us, all of us, including our emotions, romantic feelings, physical desires, and our brains. Human love was His […]
