One of the Ten Commandments is to honor your parents. You can’t get around it. While people will debate what “honor” really means we are to speak to and treat our parents with respect and dignity. They were given to us by God, and no matter how good or bad they raised us we are…
Read MoreThere are a lot of things we can live for in this life. We can live for our family, or we can live for our work. As a Christian, we have to choose if we are going to live to please the flesh or please the Holy Spirit. Living to please the Holy Spirit means…
Read MoreIf there is a secret sauce that leads to a satisfying Christian life, it is learning how to serve one another through love. There are so many things we can do with our time, but serving is the one thing that brings unexpected joy. That doesn’t mean it is easy or it goes well all…
Read MoreWe are all created to be part of a family. Inside each of us is a need to be needed. That’s why God created the church to be a place where all of the lost and hurting people could come and be accepted. He adopts us into his family when we put our faith in Christ….
Read MoreWouldn’t it be so easy if we could reduce following Jesus down to a list of rules? “Do this.” “Don’t do that.” Then we would know exactly what to do when we are unsure. Well, that has already been attempted, and it didn’t work out too well. The Old Testament law was a list of rules,…
Read More What does it mean to be crucified with Christ? Does it mean we have to suffer in some way? Or is there some other spiritual meaning to it? The crucified life is one where we die to the old life before we came to Christ and live as a new creation. We no longer live…
Read MoreWho are you trying to please? It has been said that you can please some of the people some of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time. We can expend a lot of time and energy trying to make other people happy. As a Christian, we live for…
Read MoreImagine a group of people that find great joy in being together, who work hard at resolving differences, with their minds are set on the same things as they live in harmony with one another. Sound enticing? That is what the church is intended to be. We are to be a group of believers that…
Read MoreThe farmer works so that he may reap a bounty when harvest time comes. He puts the work in early and continues all the way through the harvest. To reap a bounty, he must sow accordingly. He can’t expect to harvest if he hasn’t planted. The same goes with our lives. The principle of sowing and…
Read MoreI am a big fan of TV where people have to survive in the wilderness. Whether it be survivalists, who have to find food and construct a shelter out of whatever they find or people who build off of the grid, living sustained in the wilderness is intriguing to me. They have made it reality TV today,…
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