Life in the church isn't always easy, just as living on the ark with a bunch of animals wasn't easy for Noah. But what's the alternative?
02/22/2012 by Tim Archer
Phil Ware continues his series on Outside the Walls, looking at Nicodemus and the Samaritan woman at the well and reminding us that they are more alike than they are different: both need Jesus and his truth, life, and love.
02/19/2012 by Phil Ware
Rick Brown challenges us to be welcoming to those who are outsiders and those we do not know.
02/16/2012 by Rick Brown
The Christian life is a life of intentional choices made every day. You cannot live that life on auto-check.
02/15/2012 by Steve Ridgell
Tom Norvell talks about God's love for us in Jesus and also anniversaries.
02/14/2012 by Tom Norvell
Phil Ware shares a message centered on John 2 and Jesus' miracle of turning the water to wine at Cana in Galilee because of Mary's concern and intervention.
02/12/2012 by Phil Ware
Russ Lawson talks about fear, uncertainty, and doubt, or FUD, and how God's word and God speaks into each of these to give us life.
02/10/2012 by Russ Lawson
Today we tend to think that only "Spiritual leaders" can talk or tell us about Jesus. That the "professional staff" are the only ones with training and insight to convey the important passages to others. Yet the history of Judeo-Christian faith demonstrat
02/08/2012 by Bill Brant
Phil Ware talks about why he and about 100 others go to Peru each year when it costs so much.
02/05/2012 by Phil Ware
Larry Davies writes about the proper attitude to face evaluations and how to avoid fear as we approach them.
02/03/2012 by Larry Davies
If we want to find God, first we have to look for Him
02/01/2012 by Tim Archer
Rubel Shelly reminds us that there is really no such thing as the Christian vote, but a reality that politics often uses religion and religion gets used in politics, but the kingdom of God comes in different ways.
01/31/2012 by Rubel Shelly
Phil Ware reminds us of our need for God's help to open hearts so that we can share Jesus with others.
01/29/2012 by Phil Ware
Ron Rose writes about change and how it is not only inevitable, but it is the answer to life's greatest challenges and the wind upon which faith sails.
01/27/2012 by Ron Rose
Cell phones that don't work validate all your fears about technology. Some people have that same thought about Jesus when eveything in life does not work like they want.
01/25/2012 by Steve Ridgell
Tom Norvel reminds us as leaders that we are promised wisdom, we just need to pray for it and ask for it genuinely and in faith.
01/24/2012 by Tom Norvell
Phil Ware continues his series on Better Broken reminding us that God can make us better after we have been broken and use us to do his work in the Kingdom because of two things: forgiveness we receive in Jesus through baptism and the power of the Holy Sp
01/22/2012 by Phil Ware
Rubel Shelly wades into the Tim Tebow issue with some good insight and a reminder to wait and see how this all turns out.
01/20/2012 by Rubel Shelly
The story of Eijah helps us understand what finding God can be like
01/18/2012 by Tim Archer
Rick Brown reminds us that even though we may have already begun to slip back into the old way of living, the New Year can be bring us fresh life if we remember this.
01/17/2012 by Rick Brown
Phil Ware continues his series, Better Broken, focusing on the problem of there being 11 apostles and how people fail us and what are we doing to do to go on after we've been betrayed.
01/15/2012 by Phil Ware
There is one resolution that makes you a better person, makes everything new, and still works when you break it.
01/11/2012 by Steve Ridgell
Phil Ware continues his series called Better Broken that focuses on how God used flawed, broken people to change the world by sharing the message of Jesus and this involved Purpose: to be witnesses, Plan: to release God's power through prayer; People: the
01/08/2012 by Phil Ware
Ron Rose asks us to pay attention to our lives and see God at work, even in the moments he does not appear to be present and especially in the moments that appear to be boring.
01/06/2012 by Ron Rose
Like the Israelites of old, we too can find ourselves ripped from our homes, forced to go places we don't want and become slaves to our emotions and desires. BUT we can go "home" anytime we choose restoration with our Father.
01/04/2012 by Bill Brant