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January 26, 2024
Recently a friend was telling me about their friend who was going trough some tough times. Specifically, her brother passed away due to a heart attack at a fairly young age. While I certainly feel empathy I couldn’t help but reflect on the fact the If you live long enough in this world, you will...
peaceJanuary 25, 2024
So I’ve been reading and writing about “finding peace” off and on since we started this now. To me, it is one of the most essential parts of my relationship with Christ. My vision of Jesus, in part, is peace. But I have learned recently about a phrase that young students in seminary school are ta...
spiritual-growthJanuary 15, 2024
So here’s a question for you. Are you living in growth mode with your relationship with Christ? What I mean is, are you actively reading, meditating and growing your relationship with God?Let’s be honest, none of are going truly going to “get there” with our relationship until we meet Jesus face...
perseveranceDecember 13, 2023
Grinding it out and persevering builds character. Plain and simple. Something about endurance has the incredible capacity to refine you. I guess it’s kind of like a fire for silver, removing impurities and strengthening the character. Often because endurance goes hand-in-hand with trials and tria...
bible-studyDecember 6, 2023
Ok folks, this next comment is mainly focused to us men, but ladies it applies to you too. Read the instructions...I know, but this one is THE manual. So, I’m like you and often just wish sometimes that life had an instruction manual? Well, actually God has given us one. It’s called The Bible; it...
integrityNovember 24, 2023
“Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.”Proverbs 10:9 It’s a big weekend for college football the next couple weekend and I for one am excited. It’s hard though not to see what is going on with the new NIL deals and the transfer portals. In...
fellowshipOctober 10, 2023
“For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them."”Matthew 18:20 Many of you on this devotional I’ve meet through work in one way or the other. That’s special to me because it tells me that people know just who I am and what I’m about. Last week, a broker I work with and I w...
forgivenessOctober 5, 2023
Since I love the subject, I kind of want to stay on forgiveness a little longer. It seems the world is just out for revenge or quick to blame one party or the next....blah, blah, blah, you get the point. I mean sometimes we might hesitate to forgive someone because we don’t feel very forgiving to...
forgivenessOctober 4, 2023
So, a good friend of mine and I have recently been taking about the idea of forgiveness and I though I’d go back to my favorite subject again and talk about it. It’s the root of our salvation, so why not keep it in the forefront of our daily talks, right? “Forgiven people should be forgiving peop...
witnessOctober 2, 2023
Should we care what people think of us? Should we care what we post on social media? I mean, we hear all the time, “God’s judgement is the only one that matters”, right? While I agree with the later, I disagree. We should care what others see from us, it’s our light. As disciples of Christ, we ne...
loveJuly 5, 2023
So I’m reading first Corinthians last night and find myself reading this verse we all know. “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with...
bible-studyJune 29, 2023
I was talking to a buddy yesterday about how much I enjoy sharing the word in my lay manner and how I feel like I am, in my own way, fulfilling The Great Commission. That is to say I hope I am anyhow. I can tell you this though, this has helped keep me accountable in The Word and I have grown by...
waitingJune 16, 2023
So, yesterday I mentioned I was reminded that God’ s timing is perfect. And while I have to agree, it’s the time before that “perfect timing” that is the most difficult. I know it is for me. Think about when you aren’t where you used to be but not yet where you want to be. And you find yourself i...
purposeMay 26, 2023
We always run into detours or audibles in the road map or play book of our lives. We all do. Especially in our relationship with Christ. But why? Why can’t we just be saved and just cruise through life knowing we’re headed for eternity with our maker with no issues here? Well, let’s talk about it...
sufferingMay 23, 2023
You ever notice that when we finally get out of whatever it is we are suffering from it never seems to be the way we thought we would get out of it? Like during our suffering we could never understand or see the way out that God has for us. It’s because it’s His plan for us not our plan for us. H...
complainingMay 11, 2023
Ok, reading and working through Philippians and this happens;“Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,”Philippians 2:14-15 Yo...
humilityMay 5, 2023
“So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility coun...
hypocrisyApril 6, 2023
You guys know I tend to write what is on my heart. It’s what helps me drive the content I send each morning. You ever stopped and though about why so many people often quit going to church these days? Not even attending church, just believing! I have, and the main reason I believe is that people...
disciplineJanuary 5, 2023
A couple days ago, I talked about having rest. Taking time off to be present in your relationship with God. You hear it all the time, “I’ve just been so busy...” or “I don’t have time, I’m so busy...”. Really, are you really that busy with things that matter? Is your house in order?I ask this bec...
humilityDecember 21, 2022
I think at some level we all struggle with pride and have a hard time with humility. I know I do, at certain times more than others. How do you grow in humility? I know of two ways. One of them is hard and the other one sucks. The first and hard one, is to value humility so much that you develop...
wisdomDecember 5, 2022
As I’ve grown older and I hope wiser, I’ve learned quite a few things that I couldn’t have accepted when I was younger and more stupid. One of the most glaringly things, obvious to me now, is I could never have gotten where I am today both professionally and personally without the help and counse...
worldlinessDecember 1, 2022
Ok, I’m going to “get real” for a minute. Too often I allow myself to think in ways that lead me to act contrary to God’s Word. What exactly do I mean? Simple, I like you maybe, can easily get caught up in what the world around me says is ok and acceptable. What is “normal” these days is hard to...
christian-livingNovember 28, 2022
What are you doing? I don’t mean what are you doing right now, but what are you doing in your life and how are you dong it?I ask myself this question a lot. I ask it not in relation to my career or anything, I ask myself this as it pertains to what am I doing and how am I doing it?Are our weekend...
perseveranceNovember 17, 2022
This has been a tough week and it’s only Thursday, but you know what, life keeps going doesn’t it? I love the saying, “you’ve survived 100% of everything you’ve gone through so far, so there’s a good chance you’re going to make it through this...”The things you go through make you unique. Everyon...