Have you questioned what you believe lately? It’s a good thing to do, you know. When we question what we believe, we usually end up in one of two places – 1.) we find we weren’t believing the true and in turn, find the truth, or 2.), our faith is strengthened in what we believe. […]
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Flipping the Script: Finding Freedom from False Success
Have you ever achieved something you thought would bring you happiness and fulfillment, only to realize that success alone wasn’t enough? You’re not alone. The whole world deals with it. In fact, the whole world – the culture – has this idea of what success is, but the idea and the reality are not the […]
The Benefits Of Reading And Studying The Bible You May Not Know
You may be wondering what role the Bible should play in your life. You know, besides being God’s Word straight to the human race about how much He loves us and provided for us through His Word and what He has done through Jesus Christ. With so many other things competing for your attention, from […]
Who Should You Be?
If you haven’t noticed, culture and the world is constantly telling our youth who they should be. Then they tell them how they should be this thing that they say they should be. You should be a boy. You should be a girl. You should be both. You should be neither. You should decide. You […]
The Proper Place Of Relationships
Relationships. In the church world, we like to focus a whole lot on relationships. We have things like relational evangelism. We have connect groups and link teams where we try to connect people with similar interest, or of the same age and have them do things to grow their relationships together to make a stronger, […]
What To Do When The Grinch Doesn’t Steal Christmas And You Still Don’t Get What You Want!
Christmas morning is almost here and little feet will be running down stairs, running from their rooms, wiping sleep from their eyes, waking up early with anticipation to run to that brightly lit Christmas tree and find stashed under that tree – disappointment. But no, the grinch didn’t come and steal all their presents. The […]
Did You Miss It In A Charlie Brown Christmas?
It’s Christmas time again, which means, among other things, celebrating those family traditions. One that we always had in my house growing up was watching A Charlie Brown Christmas. There was something about the dopey Charlie Brown that you just have to feel sorry for….and enjoy watching. It wasn’t until I grew up that I […]
A Good Plan or God’s Plan
Years ago when I first got saved, I attended a small church of less than 100. We didn’t have a worship band. In fact, all we had was a CD player and a bunch of CDs for our worship. I had been born again for probably less than a year when the youth pastor gave […]
The Lies We Believe
What would happen if I would go to your school or your work and start telling everyone that you were a liar? I’d tell them that you lied to me, my family, your friends, your family. I’d tell them that you lied about this and that, big and small. And I would do this day […]
Keep Standing
I was skimming through the radio the other day, and my attention was caught on this secular radio station with these people talking. One of the DJs was saying that he thought it was brave for a person to go out and eat by themselves at a restaurant on Friday or Saturday night after 8 […]