What is the difference between someone’s heart and spirit? If we repent with our heart, does it mean one thing, and if we repent with our spirit, another? Or, are they one and the ...
Read more: Repentance: Heart and Spirit (part 6 of 10)
Picture being at a roller skating rink. The deejay announces all couples skate, and we scramble to grab someone’s hand.
However, just any hand won’t do. We don’t grab for the touch of a ...
A finely coiffed poodle sat in a pet store. It was next to the door for everyone to admire. Next to it was an English sheepdog, its flowing fur lush and inviting. The greater the distance down the ...
Read more: Repentance: Pedigree Not Required (part 3 of 10)
We live in an information age. There are security cameras on street corners, email zipping across the Internet, and smart phones in every hand. Others know more about us than at any other age in the ...
Read more: Repentance: Our Sins Remembered (part 1 of 10)
We all make plans for our lives. We want to travel to a far land or marry a certain person. We hope to enter a desired profession and make our mark on the ...
Read more: Making God’s Mark
To open the message, look around you. Without a doubt you could name five blessings God has given you in the past year. Our God loves us and blesses ...
Read more: Pay It Forward
April 1st is a day for jokesters and pranksters. We expect bizarre fake news stories to pop up on our computers and whoopee cushions to sound off in our chairs. It becomes nothing more than a moment ...
Read more: A Foolish Life
Can something dead be brought back to life? Devastated finances? A foundering relationship? A ruined life? A country wrought by civil war? A people sliding toward spiritual ...
Read more: Dead Wood and the Christ
Driving in bad weather is a nightmare we all dread. However, if our car has traction control, we can drive up the steepest of hills without a worry in the ...
Read more: The Traction Control Christian
Easter is a day of rejoicing in Christ’s risen triumph. We see it as a time of rebirth. It is spring, we have on our newest clothes, and life is wonderful.
To have lived it two thousand years ago ...
It is easy for us to lose our focus on God. Few are the people who can keep God in their sights when financial turbulence and emotional turmoil buffet us.
However, God lives in the Land of Neither. ...
Read more: God’s Neither Land