Let’s Not Forget Who’s in Charge Good and evil are not equal and opposite forces In Revelation we read about the dragon and the beast, a great battle, and the tribulation the whole world faces. The Beast Embedded in the middle of this epic tale...
How Can You Shrink Your Church? We live in a world that thinks bigger is better, but that’s not always true Our modern-day society evaluates things based on size. We celebrate magnitude, with bigger being better. This includes church. We often...
Does Silence Scare You? We need to learn to worship God in silence, doing nothing but standing in awe of him The Book of Revelation is an amazing book. However, I fear that many people miss the point of it. The intent of Revelation isn’t to give...
The Bible Provides Direction for Our Life Read the Holy Scriptures as a guidebook more so than a rulebook Though some people read the Bible out of a sense of obligation—and granted, sometimes we have seasons where we just need to push...
Does It Ever Seem Like God Hates You? What we may perceive as a lack of love may actually be the embodiment of it In the book of Revelation, John shares a grand vision with an epic scope, far reaching and future focused. But before we get to...
Are You a Sunday Morning Spectator or Performer? Church services have become an event, with consumers who come to watch a show Today’s churches contain two types of people. And each of us fits in one category or the other. We are either...
Do You Have Life? Whoever has the Son has life In the first of John’s three letters, he writes to the early followers of Jesus, reminding them of God’s essential message about Jesus, light, and life. Jesus, by the way, is the light and he gives...
Considering the Sabbath: Are You Free or a Slave? Don’t be a slave to the Law or to legalism, but be free to accept Sunday as a gift from God The fourth of God’s Ten Commandments tells us to not work on the seventh day of the week and to keep it...
What Is Your Path? When we focus on other people, we may lose sight of our own calling As Jesus wraps up his stint on earth, he spends some time with his disciples, the core group he trained for three years. They will need to carry on without...
How a Business Mindset Influences the Church A church and its congregation shouldn’t let a corporate mentality infiltrate it’s thinking In “Why Business Practices Hurt the Church” we discussed how business thinking has improperly affected the...
