We have to have a mission for our families bigger than physical and financial goals, we have to have a spiritual mission.
01/12/2007 by Paul Faulkner
So often the people who do the most hard work get no recognition for it and we need to remedy that situation.
01/09/2007 by Alan Smith
The coming of Christ is a violent grace that heads to a violent end and if we listen to the birth stories of Jesus we can find there a real Savior who lived in our all too real world.
01/08/2007 by Phil Ware
Like a work of improvisational jazz, life is a journey from one new thing to another.
01/05/2007 by Paul Faulkner
Resentment kills us, but forgiveness allows us to exercise a growing faith like a mustard tree and let God do the impossible within us.
12/28/2006 by Larry Davies
Whether Christmas comes on December 25 or not doesn't really matter, what does matter is that Jesus came and the angels declared it and that we celebrate it with great joy.
12/25/2006 by Phil Ware
The real place Christmas happens is in our hearts, where love, joy, peace, and kindness are found.
12/23/2006 by Charlotte Barres
Jesus is the reminder of God's unconditional love and willingness to search and sacrifice to find us and bring us home as our love-sick father.
12/21/2006 by Randy Becton
We get so caught up in the fluff we forget the focus of God, like justice and mercy.
12/20/2006 by Jamie Shell & Brent Nidiffer
An older lady's mistake with Christmas envelopes reminds us that God never forgets to pay for our gifts!
12/19/2006 by Alan Smith
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
Russ finds out about a grandbaby because of a sonogram and the baby is wiggling around all over the place and reminds us that life begins in the mind of God.
12/07/2006 by Russ Lawson
It's not how many days we have, but how we use those days for God that matter -- or to say it differently, it is not how far we walk, but how we walk in the miles we cover that matter most.
12/05/2006 by Patrick D. Odum
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
Using something for free almost every weekend of the year for a parking lot reminds a church that they don't own what they use; we need to learn that same thing as God's children.
12/03/2006 by Alan Smith
How do we know what God expects of us or what it takes to please him? By listening to what he tells us to do in Micah 6:8.
12/02/2006 by Tom Norvell
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
Sin is like a virus Satan has designed to appear harmless, infect us, spread, and render everything useless and destroy everything.
11/29/2006 by Bill Sherrill
In the times of hardship and trial, it is hard to wait on the Lord because it seems so long before his deliverance, promised and sure as it is, comes to free us from our pain and suffering.
11/18/2006 by Tom Norvell
Can we spend any special, focused, time thinking about nothing but God? It is hard, but we must learn to do so.
11/16/2006 by Alan Smith
Patrick Odum tells about a boy who shared his winnings with his father rather than spending it only on himself and the joy that this attitude brought the father and Patrick compares this to the joy we give our Father, God, when we share.
11/15/2006 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
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