We need to look for opportunities to intervene in other people's lives to help them in their times of greatest need.  We need to be a conduit of God's love and compassion to the people God brings us...  Read More

Have you ever been disappointed?  When we set our eyes on and settle for false hopes in this life, we become disappointed.  But real hope grounded in God will not disappoint us.  Romans 5:3-5 says "A...  Read More

  1 Corinthians 13:13 says “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”  What a great passage.  It is a summation of our Christian life lived out.  Wile we sh...  Read More

In Luke 15, we find the story of the lost sheep. The shepherd leaves the 99 to look for the one lost sheep. We are a lot like sheep. And even today, it is not a compliment to be compared to a sheep. S...  Read More

In Luke 1, we read the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth.  They had been barren for years when an angel appeared to Zechariah in his old age and told him he was going to have a son.  Zechariah's first...  Read More

  Yesterday was a glorious day as we witnessed scripture performed.  I send a special thanks to Phillip Smith for his powerful presentation of Philippians.   In Philippians 3, Paul warns the people of...  Read More

In Luke 1 after the birth of John the Baptist, his father, Zechariah, is filled with the Holy Spirit and prophecies: 68 “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,     because he has come to his people...  Read More

   When George Clooney lets go of Sandra Bullock's hand in the movie Gravity, you know he is doing to die and soon because his oxygen tank is almost empty.  The atmosphere outside this earth won't sus...  Read More

  A lumberjack went into a groove of trees the he knew he was going to eventually cut down.  Among the trees, he saw a mother bird building a nest. He knew she would lay her eggs, the babies would hat...  Read More

   As Christians, God has given us a mission and a message, but we must have the proper motivation or the message we deliver will be destructive. In Luke 10:17-20, the 72 disciples who were sent out m...  Read More

  Thomas Howard wrote a book called Splendor in the Ordinary and in that book he makes a reference to George McDonald, another 19th Century writer who said, “The one principal of hell is I am my own.”...  Read More

   Galatians 5:22-23 says "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law."  My English ...  Read More