Do We Need to Include the Lament in Our Sunday Worship Services? Expressions of grief and sorrow abound in the Psalms but the church has forgotten how to lament In the churches I have attended throughout my life and visited in the past few years...
Sunday is a Great Day For Some Recreation Having a regular Sabbath provides an opportunity to rest and recharge The dictionary defines recreation as a time of refreshment for our mind or body through the use of an activity that amuses or...
We Need to Learn From the Seven Churches in Revelation John’s vision for the area’s churches provides us with practical insight today Many people love the Book of Revelation, the apostle John’s supernatural treatise of the end times. It’s an epic...
How to Hear From God Supernatural conversations with the divine can happen – for those ready to listen For much of my life I believed what well-meaning people taught me. They said I could talk to God through prayer, and he would talk to me...
Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life The source of life, truth, and the way to Father God is through Jesus The disciple Thomas wants to go where Jesus will go but doesn’t know how to proceed. He seeks clarification. Jesus gives him a five...
The Bible Provides a Greater Authority for Faith and Spirituality It’s critical to build our spiritual house on a strong foundation if it is to last We live in a day where people make up their own religion. It seems silly to state our present...
We Should Be Like Jesus To discover WWJD (what would Jesus do) we need only look at what the Bible says Jesus goes to the synagogue in his hometown to worship God with his family and friends. It’s his turn to read scripture and the day’s...
The Art of Giving to God By giving to God we demonstrate our love to him Jesus says to give “to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s,” Luke 20:25, NIV. While the context of this relates to paying taxes, the ramifications go beyond...
Are You Spiritually Selfish? We must concern ourselves with the physical and spiritual wellbeing of others and not focus on ourselves In Isaiah 39 we read a prophecy given to King Hezekiah by Isaiah. This occurs after Hezekiah does something...
We Must Choose to Follow Jesus Every Day Each morning we decide how we will live that day: for ourselves or for a greater purpose In highschool a friend caught me off guard when she said with confidence that “once you’re saved you can’t lose your...
