Mike Barres talks about a hunting trip with his wife and how they were so thankful for just heat and food and the simple things of life.
05/08/2008 by Mike Barres
Tom Norvell talks about setting expectations too high or too low and trusting in God to do more than we can ask or imagine so we can wait in expectation of each day for his work in our lives.
04/20/2008 by Tom Norvell
Steve Higginbotham shares his problems with impulse buying and the bills that eventually come due and he compares it to how we live our lives and the big check out day that lies ahead.
02/17/2008 by Steve Higginbotham
Mike Barres reminds us that we so easily get our focus on things down here and not on the Lord who can help us with our lives and help us solve our problems.
01/31/2008 by Mike Barres
Tom Norvell reminds us to praise God for what he has done in our lives, not explain it away.
10/07/2007 by Tom Norvell
Paul Faulkner shares several good things about bad things helping us focus on what is important.
07/13/2007 by Paul Faulkner
Money really doesn’t grow on trees -- and some of us are growing more aware of this fact every day. Truthfully, most people deal with financial stress
06/20/2007 by Courtney Loy
God's family can do so many really good things to help others if they decide to be Jesus to their community.
04/20/2007 by Paul Faulkner
Most of what we worry about never happens; so let's trust the future to the Lord.
03/09/2007 by Paul Faulkner
We are killing ourselves trying to find happiness in things and miss it because it is not found there.
02/22/2007 by Rubel Shelly
When Jesus enters someone's life, that life will be changed ... for the better, because in Jesus, things happen!
02/16/2007 by Paul Faulkner
So often we don't try new things and stay stuck in our rut rather than seeing God's opportunities and call to be God's people.
02/04/2007 by Mike Barres
When things are not in good shape at home it is usually because our priorities have gotten off track.
01/26/2007 by Paul Faulkner
What we have is not what determines how rich we are and our job is just a means to an end, not the real goal or end.
01/25/2007 by Russ Lawson
When do we have enough stuff and can we say no to acquiring more?
10/05/2006 by Rubel Shelly
After reading the passage again, have you seen anything new, like maybe it should apply in everything you do -- the Golden Rule!
10/02/2006 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
Stuff enslaves us rather than blesses us and people count most in our lives.
07/14/2006 by Paul Faulkner
Little things, done faithfully, like taking out the garbage, are the glue, the grace, of ongoing and lasting relationships and marriages.
07/04/2006 by Patrick D. Odum
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
God can do all things, even more than we imagine, so why do we live and pray like we don't believe this?
06/03/2006 by Tom Norvell
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
Parenting twenty-somethings is a challenge but can be a blessing if we do our job well.
02/25/2006 by Martha Pope Gorris
We can learn many things from the resiliency of those who have lost so much.
09/13/2005 by Bill Sherrill
Some folks only want to hear the cheery stuff from God, not the hard stuff, too.
07/02/2005 by Mike Barres