Least of These
‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’ – Matthew 25:45 As we grow in our influence and affluence, we are commanded by God to not forget those less blessed than we are. In fact, James the half brother of Christ [...]
Read More...Communicating Honestly
Exodus 20:16, “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor”, which means that you should be truthful when communicating. In Ephesians 4:15, Paul says that we are to “speak the truth in love.” John says we must express our love in actions and truth in 1 John 3:18. “Therefore each of you must put [...]
Read More...A Sick Heart
Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. I know when my heart is longing for comfort it only becomes more and more sad. It seems to be the only thing I can focus on and there are even times that I feel I’m in a [...]
Read More...Holding Back
Many times throughout my life my attitude has gotten me in trouble. I once had a music instructor in high school tell me that if I would only control my attitude then I could do anything in life. That has stayed with me since. Every time I lose control, I remember those words. There are [...]
Read More...Building Your Home
By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. – Proverbs 24:3,4 NASB Interesting isn’t it? Of all the books on marriage, relationships, dating, etc… the Bible has the most counsel, to highest success rate (when followed), and has [...]
Read More...“Friend of God” Really?
Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. –James 4:4 Lot was the nephew of the only man identified in the Bible as the intimate friend of God, Abraham. Abraham essentially wanted to walk [...]
Read More...Sing It On Tuesdays
I am working on a message for the end of March called “Why We Sing”. The deeper I get into it, the more I fall back in love with singing to God. Why? Because that’s what he wants us to do. When we sing to God it is a beautiful offering that rises to His [...]
Read More...No Belching!
As a young boy growing up in a house full of girls, I was often reprimanded with the refrain, “Don’t belch, and if you do at least say excuse me!”, or “That’s so gross”, or “Stop put that down”…okay, that last one was usually when I was into something that I shouldn’t have been, but [...]
Read More...Love & Respect
Ephesians 5:33 (NLT) So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Giving love and respect is something that can be very difficult for us to do for our spouses because we always seem to put conditions on our love and respect. We [...]
Read More...In The Middle Of Our Praying
Daniel 9:20 While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request to the LORD my God for his holy hill— 21 while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about [...]
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