We don't like being passive, so we have a hard time recognizing that we have what we have because we are blessed.
06/17/2006 by Patrick D. Odum
While the most expensive meal in history was billed as an overcharge on a credit card, it really is a meal provided by our sin.
06/04/2006 by Alan Smith
Sin always hurts us and harms those we love, but Satan often delays our consequences so that we can get more and more involved in it and then he deeply wounds us and those we love.
05/25/2006 by Mike Barres
Moms are crucial to the outcome of nations because of the way they rear their child.
05/12/2006 by Paul Faulkner
A mother's love and touch are crucial to babies in those earliest days of life.
05/05/2006 by Paul Faulkner
Sin entangles and causes us to stumble and fall rather than running victoriously, whether the sin is our own or the sin of others against us.
04/26/2006 by Sarah Stirman
So much of what we work for really doesn't matter, so let's invest in what does, the people around us.
04/25/2006 by Rubel Shelly
So often we have the grandiose promises we've made, when in reality we won't do the small stuff!
04/22/2006 by Alan Smith
We've got to be honest about our weakness and inconsistency and quit trying to blame everything on someone or something else, including satan or the devil.
04/11/2006 by Rubel Shelly
True leadership is found in following Jesus' example as a servant, not in winning at any cost!
03/17/2006 by Paul Faulkner
Failure and falling on our face is a part of life, the real question is whether or not we'll keep getting up.
02/27/2006 by Phil Ware
All around us are people who are grace stories -- people who have opened up to God and received his grace and had their hard lives changed for the better.
02/16/2006 by Ron Rose
Hypocrisy does exist in the church and we should weed it out, but it doesn't exempt us from church.
01/26/2006 by John Roberts
We don't usually sink into sin all of a sudden, but it is a gradual thing that leads us away when we do not call on the Lord for help.
01/22/2006 by Russ Lawson
A self-destructive meal at a mud hole reminds us of how our own desires can blind us to the dangers of our own greed and lust for power.
01/21/2006 by Jerry Dyess
When we lose the Bible as our moral compass, then we are left without a good understanding of right and wrong and sin.
01/20/2006 by Paul Faulkner
A visit to the Phantom of the Opera on a cold night opens back wide the door of singing in a family's home.
01/12/2006 by Russ Lawson
As we age and the years speed by, we need to take some time and examine what we have done with our lives.
01/10/2006 by Teresa Bell Kindred
So much of life is a matter of perspective; we can choose to be glad.
12/29/2005 by Russ Lawson
A preacher gets in trouble talking about Christmas on Sunday, but warns that the world will take Christ out of Christmas.
12/21/2005 by Joe Bagby
Jesus came to face our world and give us deliverance both from and through what we fear.
12/12/2005 by Phil Ware
Putting off payments and not dealing with sin leads to disastrous results -- the payment always comes in.
12/02/2005 by Alan Smith
A terrible accident can't rob this little girl or her family of reasons to give thanks.
11/26/2005 by Russ Lawson
Bad things can be turned into blessings by God.
11/21/2005 by Phil Ware
We often take our own sin too lightly and need to be shocked into realization of how bad it is.
10/28/2005 by Alan Smith