One of the crazy challenges we got from Paul in the opening chapter of Colossians was monumental. Do you know that out of the 13 books Paul wrote for the new testament, he never once thanked a single person. I checked, I can’t find it. If you find it, send it to me. But Paul…
We talk a lot about guilt, shame, motivation behind our actions and we can really begin to understand how those feelings all link together. I was reading a devotion this morning from Greg Laurie and wanted to share about the truths in his message. Here is Greg’s devotion, and then at the end I will…
None of us is better than all of us! Watch out! Don’t let your hearts be dulled by carousing and drunkenness, and by the worries of this life. Don’t let that day catch you unaware, like a trap. For that day will come upon everyone living on the earth. Keep alert at all times. And…
Boy, that sounds like some instruction from a gangster or something. To be crafty or evil. That was my first thoughts as I read it as well, but then I realized that the word cunning in my life was always used as a negative. The question then arose, what does the word really mean? The…
Well, it was a fun little book. I think most of us were surprised by the content of the book of Titus. Each of us have grasped on to a nugget of truth that was right in our hands that we were unaware of. This coming week we will be reading one of the smallest…
We work so hard planning and preparing for our race called life. Not many people know the following story and it provides a real life illustration as well as basic principals for our own lives. The story picks up in Barcelona, Spain in 1992. His name, before the race, brought little recognition or notoriety outside…
It seems like no matter how hard we try to be humble; how hard we try to put others first; how we want to take the focus off us, there is a button that can be pushed, that switch that can be flipped that just sends us off in alter personality that we become ashamed…
In our times we travel around a lot. I don’t think we even recognize how much we travel. If you have had the unfortunate situation lately where you did not have a vehicle, you quickly learn how far things are. Simple things like going to the grocery store, getting to work, getting to church, etc.…