with patience, bearing with one another in love... Ephesians 4:2 I'm done! I can't stand to be in this house any longer. I have to get out and go somewhere. Anywhere. I just have to get out. Relationships are strained. My body is tired. My mind can't take it. My fuse is much shorter. [...]
Grab Your Bible Many of you have a Bible sitting around your house collecting dust. I'm not saying that you don't read your Bible, but just that most of us have more Bibles than we could ever use. In my house, I have a shelf of Bibles. It's the Bible shelf. However, merely having [...]
If anyone wants to follow after Me, let him deny himself. Matthew 16:24 There are so many things in life that I want. I would love to be a body-builder, but what are the chances? I have a desire to write a book, but what are the chances? I want to have a perfectly [...]
Patience is certainly a virtue and fruit of the Spirit given to each believer at the time of their salvation. This patience is definitely not a perfect patience, but is like a seed that continues to grow. As patience develops in us, we begin to see how God can use it to share His [...]
Patience is a virtue. Patience is a fruit of the Spirit. Patience is an amazing gift given to believers at salvation so that we can demonstrate God’s ability to lead us and guide us through the raging waters of life. However, patience has its own set of difficulties and challenges. This first of several [...]
Patience always seems to get a bad reputation. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard people talk about patience as if it were some kind of ugly word only to be uttered in the middle of some of life’s biggest crisis situations. The truth is much different, and I hope this [...]
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 [...]
Playing basketball was one of my favorite things to do when I was growing up. I would play in the mornings before school, in the afternoons after school, and in the evenings with the floodlights pointing toward the goal when things began to get dark. I guess you could say that basketball was my life. [...]