Life is full of disappointment and hurt. This person hurts you, that person hurts you, your boss hurts you, your spouse hurts you, your cousin hurts you, your best friend hurts you, and people you don’t even know hurt you. Sometimes, it seems that life is one big three-ring circus full of hurt. More times [...]
Let’s be honest. Obedience is hard. We require it of our children and our employees, but drive faster than the speed limit because rules and laws don’t apply to us. It’s not a speed limit, just a speed suggestion. Obedience is about others, not about us. Obedience is about others submitting us, not us submitting [...]
Humility is easier to define than to display. Some would say that humility is the opposite of pride. Some would say that humility is the absence of pride. The problem is as believers we all struggle with pride. It creeps in slowly and disguises itself as advancement, success, or accomplishment. This pride quickly [...]
That is what we seek. That is what we need. Today, I want to end our 31-day journey by sharing that promise and hope. We know our problem is sin, and sin causes us separation with God. We also know that we have inherited sin and imputed sin. This means that we have an inherited [...]
Yesterday we reviewed the significance of Adam and Eve’s sin in the garden. As a result of Adam’s sin, we all have a corrupt nature. His sin was passed down to us. “Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because [...]
“So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate” [...]
I want to spend the next four days explaining very clearly what someone needs to do to be born again. I don’t intend to oversimplify, but only to be very clear. Everything we’ve discussed so far in our 31 Days of Promise and Hope devotional series has been for the purpose of focusing toward salvation. [...]
Have you ever been on a vacation? I bet so. I remember when we took our kids to Disney World when they were much younger. We lived nearly 9 hours from Orlando, but it didn’t seem so long of a ride. We sang songs, played games, slept a little. I mean, everyone else in the [...]
Christmas story…read. Food...eaten. Desserts…demolished. Dishes…cleaned. Pictures…snapped. Presents…opened. Torn wrapping paper…bagged. Naps…taken. Traveling…completed. Family…loved on. Now what? The Christmas season begins weeks and sometimes months before Christmas day. So much anticipation, purchasing, and craziness happen before that special day. Parties, children out of school, gift wrapping, decorating, and replacing burned out tree bulbs are just part [...]
Birthday of a King In the little village of Bethlehem There lay a child one day And the sky was bright With a holy light O'er the place where Jesus lay. Alleluia O how the angels sang! Alleluia How it rang! And the sky was bright With a [...]