Byron Ware reminds us that even after a very hard year in 2016, we have good news to carry with us in 2017!
01/01/2017 by Byron Ware
Rubel Shelly reminds us of the powerful quality of a simple flashlight to dispel darkness.
11/20/2015 by Rubel Shelly
Bill Sherrill reminds us that life is full of ups and downs, good things and bad, so we need to find the good and not the bad.
11/06/2015 by Bill Sherrill
Stacy Voss writes about her pain and a friend's pain at finding out that their husbands have been unfaithful and had repeated adulteries.
04/24/2015 by Stacy Voss
Rubel Shelly reminds us of the Christian virtue of humility, which is not thinking less of ourself, but thinking of ourself less.
11/21/2014 by Rubel Shelly
Rubel Shelly helps us think about the mystery of prayer.
03/30/2014 by Rubel Shelly
Tom Norvell shares with us insight into our skepticism and why we find it so hard to trust anyone.
01/09/2014 by Tom Norvell
Terese Bell Kindred shares a story of a friend she admires and compares her to a prize fighter because she keeps getting up and going on after bad things and cancer.
09/07/2013 by Teresa Bell Kindred
Rick Brown reminds us that what we need is a heart transplant from God so our heartbeat is that of Jesus.
04/19/2013 by Rick Brown
Rubel Shelly reminds us that some people and some things are simply evil and no other term is appropriate or speaks the truth about the situation.
07/13/2012 by Rubel Shelly
Rubel Shelly remembers a beloved African American woman who forever changed his life as a little boy through manhood.
06/12/2012 by Rubel Shelly
Rubel Shelly reminds us of a story told by Ronald Reagan, a joke, that helps us realize that sometimes our best intentions lead to a disaster that we need to admit and take credit for before something worse is done.
02/28/2011 by Rubel Shelly
Phil Ware shares insight into the unforgivable sin against the Holy Spirit, or blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, and offers a four point way to invite the Holy Spirit into our world each day.
07/08/2010 by Phil Ware
Rubel Shelly reminds us that feeling guilty isn't necessarily bad, but shame can be destructive and lead to denial or living a self-fulfilling prophecy about our badness.
05/04/2010 by Rubel Shelly
Tom Norvell talks about taking off in the pea soup of bad rainy weather and lifting up through the clouds and finding the sun and tying this all to our need to look beyond the clouds.
11/08/2009 by Tom Norvell
Patrick Odum sees a billboard by an atheistic and agnostic group that says many are good without God and he decides he is barely tolerable with God, so there's no hope for him without God!
11/02/2009 by Patrick D. Odum
Phil Ware continues his series on experiencing God and focuses on experiencing God through Jesus in community with all of its challenges and opportunities.
01/12/2009 by Phil Ware
Patrick Odum confronts us with the words of John the baptist about repentance and how we need to face ourselves honestly in the mirror.
10/25/2008 by Patrick D. Odum
Rubel Shelly reminds us that caution rooted in the fear of God can be a bad thing when we are trying to serve him with the gifts he has given us to be used for his glory.
09/16/2008 by Rubel Shelly
Alan Smith uses a story by Elie Wiesel to help make the point that sometimes we have to do things that seem even futile because we don't want to be changed into something we don't want to be.
04/04/2008 by Alan Smith
Rubel Shelly talks about finding our way when we are trapped in darkness: look for Jesus to light the way.
02/26/2008 by Rubel Shelly
Alan Smith tries to remind us that our goodness comes from Jesus and not from ourselves.
10/16/2007 by Alan Smith
Rubel Shelly is asked a hard question about the awful stories of the Bible and reminds the questioner that it is truthful, gritty, real life story of the human race while offer God's grace to redeem us.
09/11/2007 by Rubel Shelly
Paul Faulkner shares several good things about bad things helping us focus on what is important.
07/13/2007 by Paul Faulkner
Most of what we worry about never happens; so let's trust the future to the Lord.
03/09/2007 by Paul Faulkner