God is Nigh
Cover yourselves with the cover of God,...all is well because God is nigh. Psalms 34:18 The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and ...
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Fill My Cup Lord.
It all began with the annoyance of a couple late for an appointment. Sometimes God takes a quiet miracle and turns it into something that will live forever.
Where is Your Trust?
What object or person do you trust? Where is your security? The dictionary definition of trust is “firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.”
Born To Swim
The Bible is filled with stories of people who depended on others for support and success. Encouragement is to a team what wind is to a sail - it moves people forward.
Focus on Today
We are “culturalized” into worrying more because we want more. We seem to never be satisfied, never secure.
Is your Spiritual Battery Dead?
“Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.” Colossians 3:2
Marinated in the Word
take time to immerse yourself in the Word. Do it deliberately and regularly and the finished product will have a heavenly aroma.
The Mission Field Next Door
Lord, Open my eyes that I might see the mission field before me and then give me the conviction and the courage to go into all the world and preach the gospel to all…
Just Beneath the Surface
What happened to Lot. He allowed little sins in his life to go unchecked. They weren’t major, shocking kinds of sins--just “little” sins. But they were steadily eroding his moral character, until finally the…
Praise the Lord
Praise the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens. Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness. Praise him with the sounding of the…
A Day at a Time
"...do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:34
The Bible as Fiction?
The Bible is the true and reliable Word of God, written for us that we all might be saved, even the forty-eight percent who consider it to be fiction.
Instant Forgiveness; Lingering Consequences
With repentance and confession, God forgives instantly. But He doesn’t remove the consequences of our sin. We have to live with those consequences.
The Power of the Book
His story had my close attention, as well as all the others circled around him in a small group. Every eye was fixed on him.
It Is Never Too Late
Some people say they have sinned too long and too bad to ever be accepted by Christ. Don’t you believe it.
Don’t Worry, Be Happy
I confess; I am a worrier. I worry too much, often about things in the past, often about things over which I have no control and often over things that probably won’t even happen.
Who or What Do You Worship?
Ecclesiastes 5:10 reminds us that “Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income….” The trap is wealth.
Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus
Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such…
Selling Yourself Short
Are you settling for something less than God’s best for you? If so, you need to spread your wings and fly. God wants you to be all that He created you to be.
Back to the Basics
Question: Do we let our earthly challenges blur our vision of the basics of our faith? We too need to get back to the basics of the Christian faith.
Let Us Go to Bethlehem
Christmas time is a season when many people are more interested in the present than the past. But, it is the past that Christmas is all about. It started over two millenniums ago with…
The Cap of Separation
I recently heard a Jewish man talking about why he wore the skullcap, known as a kipa in the Hebrew language. I was fascinated at his explanation, as it opened my eyes as to…
The Lord will Provide
We live in a scary world. One of the hardest things I have to do is to let go and let God. I want to run my world, my way and on my schedule.…