Phil Ware has one more Christmas thought to place in our hearts before we lose Jesus in the New Year!
01/02/2015 by Phil Ware
Phil Ware continues his 4 part series on Thanksgiving and how important it is for churches to leverage change and growth in in their church families.
11/17/2014 by Phil Ware
Phillip Morrison writes to remind us that the Ferguson tragedy is not new, but a repeated wound or scar, and we need trusted friends to help address the issue, and the same is true with our lives and Jesus our friend.
09/01/2014 by Phillip Morrison
Phil Ware challenges us to think about the small blue planet we find ourselves on and how are we going to interconnect it with grace.
08/12/2014 by Phil Ware
Tim Woodroof continues his six part series on life and growth and stages of churches, especially churches in decline.
07/20/2014 by Tim Woodroof
Jesus wants to remind us that performing a series of religious acts doesn't make us right with God. Our attitude matters. What the Bible calls "the heart." While men look at the outside, God looks at the heart.
07/16/2014 by Tim Archer
Phil Ware continues his series on the prodigal son called the Journey home and he looks at the hardest lesson learned, that it is better to be a servant in our Father's house than to be on our own and alone.
06/16/2014 by Phil Ware
Phillip Morrison reminds us of the role and importance of a dad and father on Father's Day.
06/15/2014 by Phillip Morrison
Michele Howe shares with us a poignant story of a woman caregiver and the loss of a client, or patient, and friend, and how it wipes her out and discourages her until she finds a way to bless this friend and her family and goes to the Father in prayer.
05/30/2014 by Michele Howe
Phil Ware gives three reasons to sponsor a child with Compassion International.
04/21/2014 by Phil Ware
There is a God who can forgive all the heinous acts anyone can perform. There is a God who allowed His only Son to save all of us by paying the price none of us deserved. There is a God who can take the worst sinner and transfer him or her into a forgiven
03/19/2014 by Bill Brant
It doesn't matter what you have done. Your sins can be washed away. You can start over. God will cleanse you and give you a new life.
02/26/2014 by Tim Archer
Stacy Voss reminds us that John the Baptist asked a deep and important question of Jesus and Jesus answered with not only truth, but also words of honor and affirmation.
02/21/2014 by Stacy Voss
Phil Ware reminds us the way Jesus uses grace as an action, a living out of God's grace, in real life that has urges that Go back to the original woman and man.
02/03/2014 by Phil Ware
Brian McCutchen talks about worship and how it must be a daily part of our lives or it is not real worship like the early Christians shared and lived.
01/30/2014 by Brian McCutchen
Satan wants to tattle on us to God so we get what we deserve. God will not let him. Instead, he forgives our sin.
01/15/2014 by Steve Ridgell
Rubel Shelly re-shares a prayer for the New Year and a fresh start on life.
01/02/2014 by Rubel Shelly
The Christian life is much like a race. If you finish, you get a medal. If you don't finish... no medal.
12/11/2013 by Steve Ridgell
Ann Voskamp talks about this year's wheat harvest and how it reminds her of God's grace and message of love when she was once in France and how communion is about love and love is about sacrifice.
10/25/2013 by Ann Voskamp
Ann Voskamp writes about the love she shares with her farmer husband and how he loves her with real love.
10/18/2013 by Ann Voskamp
Phil Ware shares the sweet prayer request from one of the translators in a predominantly Muslim nation wracked with violence and bloodshed: "Please pray for the terrorists that they know Jesus Christ like Saul who became Paul :)"
09/16/2013 by Phil Ware
Robyn F. Johnson shares the story of the widow and Elisha in 2 Kings 4, and she reminds us that God cares for us and provides for us, we just need to look for our little vial of olive oil and offer it to him.
08/23/2013 by Robyn F. Johnson
Lisa Mikitarian talks about being younger, being enamored with a biker while in the military, and how being too nice plagued her until she learned the importance of kindness.
07/27/2013 by Lisa Mikitarian
Brian McCutchen talks about the night he was baptized and the fear he felt and his desire to know he was going to heaven and now he is assured of those things because he understands God's grace.
07/26/2013 by Brian McCutchen
Lisa Mikitarian tells us a wonderful story about the Father's grace revealed in a young girl's fall with the cupcakes made to honor her beloved grandmother.
07/06/2013 by Lisa Mikitarian