Paul Faulkner reminds us that if we are going to keep being a servant to Christ and others, then we've got to care for ourselves and replenish what we are depleting in our service to others.
09/21/2007 by Paul Faulkner
We all need help to get where we're going. If you don't know how to get to Jesus, don't be afraid to ask someone who does.
08/22/2007 by Steve Ridgell
Alan Smith reminds us of the importance of sending notes of thanks, appreciation, and encouragement and how important those are to others.
07/21/2007 by Alan Smith
Living life on edge—that is, under constant pressure, fear, or nervousness—is no way of living. I’m talking about anxiety,
07/18/2007 by Courtney Loy
Phil Ware shares an experience where a small town was way over hyped and didn't live up to its advertising and compares it to what happens in our churches and encourages us to build God's community.
07/02/2007 by Phil Ware
Rubel Shelly writes about our greatest cultural enemy in spiritual warfare, consumerism or greed.
06/28/2007 by Rubel Shelly
Phil Ware shares what God does for us when we sleep.
06/25/2007 by Phil Ware
Paul Faulkner reminds us that divorce causes stress on our children and creates a legacy that impacts their lives, so we need to learn to love each other in words and actions.
06/08/2007 by Paul Faulkner
Ron tells about his daughter's miscarriage and how God has connected the dots to help her come to the conclusion they need to adopt a baby.
05/10/2007 by Ron Rose
God calls us to be weird, different, to be like Christ who died outside the camp to help those caught inside to find his glory and grace.
04/29/2007 by Alan Smith
An old Rabbi reminds us that it is not dawn until we see the light of the sunrise in the eyes of our neighbor.
04/05/2007 by Rubel Shelly
So many songs and so much talk about love these days for married folks is silly and not very helpful or real.
03/27/2007 by Hal Runkel, LMFT
Tammy remembers a strange person welcomed at her church and how important it is to love all the Leslie's in our life.
03/18/2007 by Tammy Marcelain
Rubel uses a street person named Jack and his friend to remind us that each of these people have a name and need to be valued and noticed as real people.
03/15/2007 by Rubel Shelly
A scary robbery experience helps Steve remember how precious and tenuous life is.
03/08/2007 by Steve Higginbotham
Valentine's Day has us thinking about love, but the real love, even more than the love of a mother or a lover, is the love of Jesus for us.
02/14/2007 by Randy Becton
A hard-hearted person to someone in need reminds Alan of how important it is that we be kind and compassionate to others in our actions as well as in our thoughts.
02/03/2007 by Alan Smith
The national cheerleading championship reminds Tom about how so much of life comes down to that one crucial moment and how we perform it and he asks us if we are ready for our moment.
01/17/2007 by Tom Norvell
Phil reminds us that a change in our plans may not be for the worst, in fact it may be one of God's little reminders that we need to be aware of his work in our lives.
01/15/2007 by Phil Ware
The coming of Christ is a violent grace that heads to a violent end and if we listen to the birth stories of Jesus we can find there a real Savior who lived in our all too real world.
01/08/2007 by Phil Ware
Whether Christmas comes on December 25 or not doesn't really matter, what does matter is that Jesus came and the angels declared it and that we celebrate it with great joy.
12/25/2006 by Phil Ware
Christmas has unfortunately gotten so caught up in conflict that we lose sight of loving folks the way Jesus came to do.
12/24/2006 by Russ Lawson
Jesus is the reminder of God's unconditional love and willingness to search and sacrifice to find us and bring us home as our love-sick father.
12/21/2006 by Randy Becton
An older lady's mistake with Christmas envelopes reminds us that God never forgets to pay for our gifts!
12/19/2006 by Alan Smith
Life is unfair and in the unfairness we need to learn to pray and keep after it and not relent, not praying those PC prayers, but gut check from the heart prayers that are real.
12/17/2006 by Patrick D. Odum