Life is unfair and in the unfairness we need to learn to pray and keep after it and not relent, not praying those PC prayers, but gut check from the heart prayers that are real.
12/17/2006 by Patrick D. Odum
Even Napoleon Bonaparte was awed by the astonishing Jesus who came to earth as a baby.
12/15/2006 by Paul Faulkner
Jesus wasn't just born into our world in the womb of Mary, but he longs to be born into our world again in each individual Christian the Holy Spirit gives birth to in the world.
12/11/2006 by Phil Ware
Without rest we cannot restore our bodies and our health, but this is not a new idea, it is God's fitness plan from long ago.
12/08/2006 by Paul Faulkner
A surprising winter snow gives Phil the opportunity to think about the changes of seasons and the falling of grace on us all with the birth of Jesus.
12/04/2006 by Phil Ware
Patrick Odum reminds us that to grow we have to stretch, reach, and sacrifice but that is more than worth the effort because Jesus gives us back far more than we can ever give.
11/30/2006 by Patrick D. Odum
We need to visualize who we are in Christ before it becomes a real part of our daily go to work world, and so we need to pretend we are children of God and the presence of Jesus Christ.
11/14/2006 by Rubel Shelly
Phil talks about when his son Zachary was born hurt and how his voice as a father comforted his son and how we as God's children can approach God as Abba Father.
11/13/2006 by Phil Ware
Our egos are fragile and important but also dangerous, but we must learn humility.
11/02/2006 by Russ Lawson
An awful Halloween ten years ago reminds us how important it is to value children for who they are!
10/31/2006 by Phil Ware
Christian people can be ugly and ungrateful, but we must be like Jesus in both the way we use our speech and the way we forgive others who are hateful and ungrateful.
10/23/2006 by Phil Ware
A humorous story about a date is a reminder of how hard it can be to communicate well.
10/12/2006 by Rubel Shelly
We have a hard time understanding because we don't hear or listen to understand what Jesus is saying to us!
10/11/2006 by Russ Lawson
The greatest miracle of all is the one that occurs every day in the lives of people who are found by grace and changed.
10/06/2006 by Paul Faulkner
God longs to help supply us with our need, just as he did with the apostles trying to feed the 5000.
10/01/2006 by Alan Smith
We have all sorts of trouble, heartache, grief, disappointment, discouragement in this world, but Jesus has overcome the world and given us victory.
09/26/2006 by Tom Norvell
Jesus accomplished all he was sent to do because he put God's kingdom and his righteousness first.
09/22/2006 by Paul Faulkner
We are to carry the distinctive fragrance of Jesus with us anywhere we go.
09/20/2006 by Patrick D. Odum
Jesus finished his work, accomplished his mission, completed his task, passed his test, and when his life was over he was victorious.
09/18/2006 by Phil Ware
Many events in our lives change us forever, our lives will never be the same as a result, and Jesus is one of those life-changing events.
09/10/2006 by Tom Norvell
So often we don't let God have control of our lives and we want to be the driver to our own loss.
08/26/2006 by Russ Lawson
Religion often addes burdens to people's backs, but Jesus came and relieved burdens.
08/25/2006 by Alan Smith
Martha knew her brother Lazarus had died, but she also knew that Jesus could do something, she just didn't know what, do you know Jesus can help in your worst crises?
08/20/2006 by Tom Norvell
We must remain connected to Jesus if we are going to bear fruit in the Lord.
08/06/2006 by Tom Norvell
Road trash and tire debris challenges Phil to remember exactly who it was that Jesus reached and ask why we don't reach them today?
07/24/2006 by Phil Ware
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