Valentine's Day has us thinking about love, but the real love, even more than the love of a mother or a lover, is the love of Jesus for us.
02/14/2007 by Randy Becton
Love is unpredictable and that is the real meaning of love, that God would do the unexpected to love us and draw us to himself.
02/12/2007 by Phil Ware
A car stuck at a light reminds
02/10/2007 by Russ Lawson
Tony Dungy reminded us that character wins and that character involves more than just sports.
02/06/2007 by Rubel Shelly
While spiritual leaders have wisdom and knowledge, they are not always right and we should seek to answer many of our own questions ourselves using the Bible as our guide.
01/30/2007 by Russ Lawson
Some of us need sunlight all the time, but all of us need God's true light or we lose our way. So let's not settle for our own idols, for what is false and shadow.
01/29/2007 by Phil Ware
Sometimes the pleasure we get out of life has to be found in the most challenging of places.
01/27/2007 by Alan Smith
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
We can search Google and the Internet for all sorts of things, but the truth is going to be found in Jesus and His Word.
01/24/2007 by Russ Lawson
Sometimes we find ourselves unhappy with where we are and look back to the good ol' days just like Israel did in turning their hearts back to Egypt.
01/21/2007 by Russ Lawson
Bill talks about all sorts of invitations that have been made and how they have all been rescinded or taken away, but Jesus offered one that won't ever go away, come to me and I will give you rest.
01/20/2007 by Bill Sherrill
We've got to fill our kids with good things and not just tell them what not to do, because if we don't fill them with God's stuff, someone is going to fill them with satan's stuff.
01/19/2007 by Paul Faulkner
Gerald Ford was not flashy or spectacular, but he was kind, honest, decent, and dependable as a president and a husband and that is how he will be remembered.
01/16/2007 by Rubel Shelly
Righteousness is not a choice but it is defined by God and his will, not by popular culture, media, and we cannot compromise and or flirt with evil.
01/14/2007 by Kimberli J. Brackett
We have to have a mission for our families bigger than physical and financial goals, we have to have a spiritual mission.
01/12/2007 by Paul Faulkner
So often the people who do the most hard work get no recognition for it and we need to remedy that situation.
01/09/2007 by Alan Smith
The coming of Christ is a violent grace that heads to a violent end and if we listen to the birth stories of Jesus we can find there a real Savior who lived in our all too real world.
01/08/2007 by Phil Ware
Like a work of improvisational jazz, life is a journey from one new thing to another.
01/05/2007 by Paul Faulkner
Resentment kills us, but forgiveness allows us to exercise a growing faith like a mustard tree and let God do the impossible within us.
12/28/2006 by Larry Davies
Whether Christmas comes on December 25 or not doesn't really matter, what does matter is that Jesus came and the angels declared it and that we celebrate it with great joy.
12/25/2006 by Phil Ware
The real place Christmas happens is in our hearts, where love, joy, peace, and kindness are found.
12/23/2006 by Charlotte Barres
Jesus is the reminder of God's unconditional love and willingness to search and sacrifice to find us and bring us home as our love-sick father.
12/21/2006 by Randy Becton
We get so caught up in the fluff we forget the focus of God, like justice and mercy.
12/20/2006 by Jamie Shell & Brent Nidiffer
An older lady's mistake with Christmas envelopes reminds us that God never forgets to pay for our gifts!
12/19/2006 by Alan Smith
Life is unfair and in the unfairness we need to learn to pray and keep after it and not relent, not praying those PC prayers, but gut check from the heart prayers that are real.
12/17/2006 by Patrick D. Odum