Genesis 3:8

"My soul, now that the cool of the day has come, retire awhile and hearken to the voice of thy God. He is always ready to speak with thee when thou art..."

"The woman was convinced [when the serpent told her it was OK to eat the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden]. She saw that the tree was beautiful....."

When is I'm sorry not an apology? Hal Runkel reminds us that we can issue an apology and actually use it to beat up someone else in the process by transferring the focus of the guilt from ourselves to someone else and this is fake and mean and bullying.

"When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife [Adam and Eve] heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the...."

Have you been refreshed in the presence of the Lord lately? Our love for the cool of the day after the hot day of work is a reminder of our need to be close to God and his desire to have us close.

How can we lay down this concrete block that weighs us down and sinks our lives? Max Lucado talks about being released from the chains of guilt from the sin in the past and set free to live for God by grace.

Where are you trying to hide? Tom Norvell compares being in his yard and garden in the cool of the day and the words of Genesis 3 and God's desire to be with us and give us rest.

Have you met Him in the garden lately? Leah Adams remembers a friend who had gone to be with God and a song sung at her funeral that reminds us all the God longs to walk with us and talk with us and tell us we are his very own.

Are you afraid to answer when God calls out to you? God is always looking for us, even when we aren't looking for him

What? I haven't done anything wrong...! Phil Ware uses a traffic incident and a crazy, cursing woman to help him make a point about blaming others rather than owning our sin and asking forgiveness for it through confession.

You can come home Like the Israelites of old, we too can find ourselves ripped from our homes, forced to go places we don't want and become slaves to our emotions and desires. BUT we can go "home" anytime we choose restoration with our Father.

Which are you: coin, sheep, or son? The 15th chapter of Luke’s gospel consists of three parables of Jesus. I call it the “Lost” chapter because the coin, the sheep, and the son are lost. The irony is that the three didn’t know they were lost.

Holding each other and ourselves accountable for our growth toward Jesus it often the forget piece in building a culture of honor. Phil Ware continues his series on building a culture of honor with a focus on accountability -- both holding others accountable and holding ourselves accountable for our growth in the Lord.

We can do great ministry in the name of Jesus and can survive all the tough challenges in life because our LORD is always close to us! Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us to recognize God's promise to be close to the broken-hearted and crushed, lonely and abandoned, discarded and forgotten.

Satan has a plan to destroy you. Here it is. Satan's plan to destroy you is to confuse you about what God said, lie about what God said, and convince you that you can be your own god.