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
Larry Davies shares a hard and horrible story of tragedy and asks where God is and helps walk us through Isaiah 43 and shows how it reflects the presence of God in our worst times through the people of God who help.
07/17/2007 by Larry Davies
Bill Denton challenges us to understand that hateful behavior is our expression of hate no matter how we try to deny it.
07/14/2007 by Bill Denton
Jane Vincenzi shares some insight in the old southern phrase bless your heart and realizes that it is really what our Christian life is all about.
07/05/2007 by Jane Vincenzi
Rubel Shelly reminds us how important it is to do simple acts of kindness and not simply look for the splashy and big things to do to bless others.
07/03/2007 by Rubel Shelly
Steve Higginbotham tells about his daughter learning the most important lesson of all, wan ting to be like Jesus.
07/01/2007 by Steve Higginbotham
Rubel Shelly talks about the kinds of ways the Kingdom of God grows and spreads, quietly, gently, in the faithful, every day actions of real people.
05/15/2007 by Rubel Shelly
Leah talks about struggling with a mess at her new home and shares how prayer and God's help pulled her through!
04/19/2007 by Leah Adams
Joey's granddaughter Landrye has taught him a great deal about God's grace.
04/03/2007 by Joey Cope
What will it take for us to realize our great value to God simply because he wants us to love him and be with him?
03/11/2007 by Amy Grant
Life is a combination of ups and downs and all arounds but Jesus is in the middle trying to bring us full life all the time!
03/10/2007 by Tom Norvell
Rubel reminds us that Christmas is the season for many things depending on who we are. So let's use this season to be a blessing and not to stir trouble and let's do it responsibly and with grace.
12/12/2006 by Rubel Shelly
Sending thank you cards or notes can be such a powerful and special blessing to those who receive them and are just the kind of thing the Lord would have us do!
11/25/2006 by Mary Lindow
An awful Halloween ten years ago reminds us how important it is to value children for who they are!
10/31/2006 by Phil Ware
The Amish are an example of simple piety that cares to honor God above getting even: it is their character and not their dress or agrarian culture we need to imitate.
10/24/2006 by Rubel Shelly
Christian people can be ugly and ungrateful, but we must be like Jesus in both the way we use our speech and the way we forgive others who are hateful and ungrateful.
10/23/2006 by Phil Ware
Jesus gave up his spirit, but he did not give up his mission, his mercy, his grace.
09/25/2006 by Phil Ware
Paul has a scare while tending his goats and it makes him realize the urgency of now, of doing the things today that need to be done and saying the things that need to be said right now.
09/01/2006 by Paul Faulkner
Hospitality is the Christian virtue of entertaining strangers, outsiders, and guests and recognizing in them angels or even the presence of God in the Trinity.
08/27/2006 by Scott Owings
We like a person with kindness much more than a person who has had a bunch of cosmetic surgery or plastic surgery.
08/11/2006 by Paul Faulkner
Friends can help friends if they love them and minister to them.
08/04/2006 by Paul Faulkner
We all need more friends, but the way to have them is to invest the time and offer others our friendship
08/01/2006 by Rubel Shelly
The spiritual discipline of generosity is crucial if we are going to grow in the spirit.
07/30/2006 by Scott Owings
Will we help those who need it simply because we follow Jesus and because they need it with no strings attached?
07/29/2006 by Mike Barres
The horrible death of one daughter and the coma of another and the confusion between the two leads the Ceraks and Van Ryns on the ultimate challenge of Christian faith.
06/29/2006 by Patrick D. Odum