A Call to Holiness In preparing for a message this week, I was studying Numbers 22 and related text regarding Balaam. To keep it short, he was a "for profit" "prophet" who, according to scripture, heard from God, but used his gifts for illicit gain. Sound familiar?...
Let That Go from Your Hands Have you ever tried to juggle? Not things in life, like, literally juggle two objects. It's tough! You cannot focus on anything, even the two (or more) objects you are juggling, you just focus on catching them as they fall into your hands....
Change Agents: Love & Honor When you hear the words love and honor, what do you think? How would you define them? Now, I was studying the relation between love and honor, whether they could exist independently of each other in a relationship. How can we love...
The Healing Love of God I'll never forget a time in my teen years when I was more interested in chasing members of the opposite sex than I was pursuing God, or, for that matter, anything else in life. I had a youth pastor who told me, "You need to change the way you...
What Would You Do For Love? To this point this month I have focused primarily on every form of love except romantic love. I have focused on the love God has for us, the love we have for each other as brothers and sisters in Christ, but today, I want to shift briefly...
Love in the Trenches One of my favorite things to do is study American military history, but I am intrigued by studying the stories of World War II, the Civil War, and other historic times in American history. Recently, I watched a documentary on Marines sent to Japan...
When Love Hurts Everyone loves a love story where the couple lives happily ever after. Well, most everyone. I shouldn't assume, should I? Thanks to social media, many have the cover to live a secret life, meaning, on the surface it all appears hunky dory, but in...
The Real Cost of Love In business, we want to know the real cost of services, products, and the bottom line, financially, in order to measure success related to operating a business. Any fiscally-minded individual would seek to know the real cost of something...
A Time to Serve, a Time to Rest Whether it is serving in the church, for non-profits, or some other worthwhile cause, it is necessary to know when it is time to rest and break away from ministry. If time isn't taken to break away from serving, fatigue will set...
The Ever-Increasing Gift of Faith Those who believe in the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, want to know what is pleasing to God. The world knows them as Christians, or Believers, Followers of Christ. For us to grow in Christ we must...
