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
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
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
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
We struggle with those times when we have received the Word of God, and still, everything seems against us. We take a step forward in his name, and the enemy seems to push us two steps back.
When ...
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
Sometimes it feels like everyone has a hand in our pocketbook. The cable company is on autopay, the gas pump debits our account twice a week, and taxes knock us for a loop every ...
Read more: Returning God’s Blessing
Sometimes we feel we’ve reached the end of our rope, we’ve tied a knot just to be able to hang on, and the rope’s coming unraveled in our ...
Read more: The Last Knot on the Rope
