Lisa Mikitarian talks about being younger, being enamored with a biker while in the military, and how being too nice plagued her until she learned the importance of kindness.
07/27/2013 by Lisa Mikitarian
Jesus gives to the givers a gift that cannot be repaid. He helps takers move from selfish it selfless.
09/29/2010 by Steve Ridgell
Rubel Shelly deals with the growing problem of rage in our world today and examines ways to let go of it.
03/15/2010 by Rubel Shelly
Rubel Shelly shares a story from post World War II at Yankee Stadium and helps us understand that self-centeredness may be okay for little kids, but not for us!
08/03/2009 by Rubel Shelly
Jesus called his disciples to leave comfortable lives in order to receive lives of purpose and a chance to be a part of God's mission in this world
07/29/2009 by Tim Archer
Rubel Shelly reminds us that the economic times, especially the financial downturn, gives us an opportunity to learn new things and establish new values, more biblical values, in our approach to consumption, greed, and ownership.
07/27/2009 by Rubel Shelly
Phil Ware imagines a conversation that the apostle Peter might have had with a visitor to him in prison shortly before his execution.
07/16/2009 by Phil Ware
Jesus did the difficult thing when he left heaven and came to earth. He did it because that was where we were.
03/25/2009 by Steve Ridgell
Patrick Odum talks about the church of me, the selfish style we have in our modern church world.
08/09/2008 by Patrick D. Odum
Rubel Shelly reminds us that we need to allow new Christians and inquirers to have time to grow and mature and not subject them to over scrutiny to the point of killing them with caustic cleanliness.
08/05/2008 by Rubel Shelly
Patrick Odum reflects on several folks who have auctioned off huge portions of their lives and property on eBay and challenges us to ask if we have done the same thing with our stuff.
07/18/2008 by Patrick D. Odum
Tom Norvell reminds us that the safest place is in the center of God's will and that means loving God and loving people.
02/24/2008 by Tom Norvell
Bill Sherrill reminds us that the spirit of the Christmas season is giving, not receiving and that we need to be a people with a spirit of thanksgiving.
12/13/2007 by Bill Sherrill
We must never be willing to sacrifice the things we believe in to gain popularity, but we must find a way to become all things to all men, so that we may by all means save some.
10/03/2007 by Skye Noe
Phil Ware takes the two love commands of Jesus, the Greatest Commands, and applies them to all of life for a follower of the Lord.
08/13/2007 by Phil Ware
Mike Barres reminds us that God wants to bless us and he also wants to conform us to Jesus: so let's not use our Christianity for selfish motives.
08/02/2007 by Mike Barres
Paul Faulkner looks at the role maturity and unselfishness play in good families.
06/29/2007 by Paul Faulkner
Selfishness is what really lies behind all of marriage problems and the devil wants to use selfish people and marriage problems to render the church ineffective.
01/10/2007 by Byron Ware
Selfishness destroys families while self-examination helps us improve ourselves and bless our families.
10/20/2006 by Paul Faulkner
When we put self in the middle of everything, then everything becomes about I, me, my, and mine, and not about God and we mess up our self-absorbed lives.
10/18/2006 by Kimberli J. Brackett
Some folks are takers, getting everything they can out of life and sucking it dry or leeches who suck the life out of everyone around them who have it.
09/29/2006 by Paul Faulkner
Jesus thought about others and helped them all the time and so must we.
06/02/2006 by Paul Faulkner
The interests of others must be our focus and not just our own stuff and wants.
05/14/2006 by Tom Norvell
Grace means we have a lifestyle of yes, not a lifestyle of no.
10/04/2005 by Ron Rose
We must learn to be much more selfless and much less self-serving in our marriage relationships.
09/28/2005 by Steve Higginbotham