Lisa Mikitarian shares the time she invested in working her son through a discussion about the importance of God guiding, but our ability to make our choices and take responsibility for our actions.
03/09/2008 by Lisa Mikitarian
Removing sin from our lives demands radical, aggressive action.
02/20/2008 by Steve Ridgell
Rubel Shelly reminds us that while we may not know Britney Spears, we do know someone like her and we need to ask if we are willing to be a friend to these people?
02/12/2008 by Rubel Shelly
Rubel Shelly confronts our tendency to make excuses for our sins, mistakes, and errors and then try to use softer words to make them not seem so bad.
02/05/2008 by Rubel Shelly
Rubel Shelly talks about Starbucks and their emphasis on customer service and how we need to emulate their desire to greet help others.
01/15/2008 by Rubel Shelly
Phil Ware talks about a university honoring students for their acts of service and it leads him to wonder how we honor God's servants today.
12/03/2007 by Phil Ware
Russ Lawson reminds us that we need to give up our check off the boxes mentality when it comes to thanking God and just respond to his grace genuinely from the heart.
11/20/2007 by Russ Lawson
Rubel Shelly reminds us that a better world begins with what we do in the small acts of righteousness and kindness in the world around us.
10/11/2007 by Rubel Shelly
Alan Smith talks about a junior high music teacher whose students didn't play.
10/06/2007 by Alan Smith
Mike Barres reminds us that we often confuse our muddled thinking, our inability to decide what to do, not because the decision is difficult, but because we don't want to obey.
09/18/2007 by Mike Barres
Our families are our greatest legacy. Our greatest prayer for them must be that they find the Lord.
09/12/2007 by Steve Ridgell
Paul Faulkner reminds us of the awesome power of words and our human ability to use them to distort the truth and anger God.
08/31/2007 by Paul Faulkner
Paul Faulkner tells about a paralyzed friend and his patience, but reminds us that all of us need patience if we are to be what God wants to grow us to be.
07/20/2007 by Paul Faulkner
Mike Barres reminds us that taking moral shortcuts and fudging on things spiritually always end up in disaster and sin.
07/08/2007 by Mike Barres
Teresa Bell Kindred shares with us her absent-minded follies because she is distracted from all of her hi-tech toys to which she is plugged in and she reminds us to get away and be with God.
07/07/2007 by Teresa Bell Kindred
Paul Faulkner reminds us that funerals are great times for us to face the reality of our final destination.
07/06/2007 by Paul Faulkner
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
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 reminds us that we are all unique and different and yet we must all take responsibility for our actions.
05/29/2007 by Rubel Shelly
Phil Ware talks about the need to live the life of Jesus before the world or our witness doesn't mean anything at best and creates hostility at worst to Christianity.
05/14/2007 by Phil Ware
Phil looks at our spiritual journey to be conformed to Jesus and to go to our home with God and asks how we can get so bogged down in being critical of others who are not at the same point in their journey as we are.
05/07/2007 by Phil Ware
Even when disaster strikes, our God is in control.
05/02/2007 by Steve Ridgell
We all need a friend or brother or sister with whom we can confess, share our story, and find deep and meaningful friendship.
04/27/2007 by Paul Faulkner
Men have a real struggle to live pure lives, but a small group that holds us accountable and confession can help.
04/26/2007 by Mike Cope
Kimberli looks in the magnifying mirror and sees things she doesn't like on her face and also in her life.
02/27/2007 by Kimberli J. Brackett