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September 9, 2024
The Secret to Contentment in Every Circumstance
“I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”Philippians 4:12-13So, we’ve all seen the scripture above and in most every case i...
graceSeptember 5, 2024
What is Grace? Understanding God's Greatest Gift
Grace. What is it exactly? I mean I sign off with “Grace wins” everyday, but what exactly am I talking about? Well, in the book of Romans, Paul tells us that we can’t receive God’s favor, become righteous, by works alone. Meaning simply obeying the laws of the land wouldn’t get us His favor. So,...
peaceSeptember 4, 2024
Finding God's Peace When Your World Is Upside Down
Can we have peace in our hearts when our world is turned upside down?Pretty good question that requires an honest look inward. You see the kind of peace the world give us is pretty sketch at best. It can change on a whim with no notice at all. Happened to me last summer with the cancer diagnosis,...
sufferingAugust 22, 2024
Why Good People Suffer: Rain Falls on Just and Unjust
Job was a tremendously righteous man and suffered greatly. So do we assume that the more righteous we are the more suffering we are to expect? Not necessarily. The large part of Job’s life features God’s blessings in every way. You see, Christ tells His disciples that good and bad things happen t...
redemptionAugust 20, 2024
Pressing On: Leaving the Past Behind for God's Glory
I spent some time last week doing some personal inventory, asking for redemption and then moving on. We must press on, we must leave the past in the past and press on in our daily lives not for our glory but His. Man, we need to let go of the past, the pain, the heartbreak, and the disappointment...
gratitudeAugust 19, 2024
Nothing Compares to Knowing Christ
You ever take a minute and look around your life and reflect on the blessing He has given you? I’m sure you have, we all do at times. This morning, as I was digging into the word, I was reflecting on some of those things and it struck me that much of what I was grateful for were things of this wo...
evangelismAugust 14, 2024
Sharing Christ's Love Through Action and Service
We have a lot of work to do yet. We need to always be sharing the name who has delivered us, Jesus. Now is the time to reach out to a world that needs to feel the love of Christ. Now is the time to help people experience forgiveness and receive unconditional love! I believe it has been in God’s p...
sufferingAugust 12, 2024
Standing Firm: How Trials Build Our Faith Credibility
I want to stay with Paul in Philippians because I think it’s important to understand how he was using his imprisonments as an advantage to further the message of Christ. “so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righte...
gospel-sharingAugust 8, 2024
What Matters Most: Christ is Proclaimed
I wanted to touch on a something that has been with me the last few days. It’s a thought centering around my own sharing of the gospel and the sharing I receive from others. More specifically who “should and shouldn’t be sharing”? “Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from...
love-in-actionAugust 6, 2024
Love in Action: The Golden Rule and Our Relationship with God
So, we’ve been talking about seeking balance in our lives and our relationships with God by showing compassion and serving others. What’s interesting though, is this has me circling back to our discussion of the “Golden Rule” and how that affects our relationship with other and our relationship w...
prideAugust 2, 2024
When Pride Says 'I Got This'
Like history, a lot of things seem to repeat themselves. Many times I have the same conversations and write about the same things here. Well, today is no different. I had a great conversation with one of my friends yesterday and we were discussing times when we feel like “we got this” and we beli...
golden-ruleAugust 1, 2024
Seeing Others as God's Masterpieces
Welcome to August…So, I’ve been reading and writing about how we need to try and live like Jesus would etc. As kids we were taught the Golden Rule (Jesus’ rule) threat others the way we want to be treated. Great idea, not so easy to do. We all know that loving everyone, even the ones we don’t lik...
wisdomJuly 19, 2024
Ask God for Wisdom to Navigate Hard Times
Alright, so you are probably asking yourself, after yesterday’s message, “how exactly am I supposed to stay rejoicing during these hard times?” Well, I hear you and I get it. James is telling us to rejoice during our times of struggle because this faith produces perseverance. The Bible teaches us...
trialsJuly 18, 2024
Finding Joy During Trials: God Is Shaping You
So last weekend I was messaging a good friend of mine who was recently badly injured in a mountain bike accident. After some surgery and screws in his knee, he’s on the mend now. He’s pretty dissapointed, understandably, because it’s going to sideline him from racing this summer in the Nationals...
forgivenessJuly 17, 2024
Choose Forgiveness Over Vengeance
Watching the news, scrolling through social media or just taking an watchful eye on what goes on around us, I can’t help but notice that it seems like everyone is out for vengeance. It’s ridiculous honestly. We have talked repeatedly about forgiveness and it’s a HUGE topic with me as it is the es...
gratitudeJuly 15, 2024
Gratitude Changes Everything
I read this last night and it bears repeating;“We don’t need to see things differently to be grateful; rather, we must be grateful to see things differently.”Wow, I need to read that. You see, God turns our gratitude into goodness, adds peace to our pain, and provides strength in our struggles. G...
callingJuly 12, 2024
What Are You Waiting For? Step Into God's Plans
What are you waiting for? I’ve been thinking about this simple question for over a week now. You see, last year I was being called to step away from a long career and focus on health, faith, family and friends. While I wasn’t really sure what it was going to look like, I soon realized God had big...
peaceJuly 5, 2024
Finding Peace in the Journey, Not the Destination
24I had a great time celebrating the fourth yesterday and got to spend time with a new member of our group yesterday and we got to talk about this devotional, keeping it going through my treatments and what I got out of it. Well, in short I just had to keep moving forward. Getting this out gave m...
faithJuly 4, 2024
Planting Seeds: Faith in the Unseen Results
So, will we always see the result of the work we’ve done by witnessing to others and being there when they need us the most? Most certainly not. But that shouldn’t discourage us from being there and sharing the Gospel. You see, we never really know how God is using us, we just need to have faith...
christian-livingJuly 2, 2024
WWJD: Faithful Witness vs Judging Others
I know I’ve written about this before, but y’all remember the WWJD bracelets we use to wear?I’ve been reading about how we should watch what we say and how we act and this came to mind. What ever happened to it? Did we figure out what Jesus would do? Did we stop caring? Well, I think it would be...
angerJuly 1, 2024
Ending Arguments: The Power of Controlled Speech
“Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.”James 1:19-20Seeking revenge or trash talking someone else when they hurt us is easy to do. We all have time everyday where someone has...
trialsJune 24, 2024
Relying on God Through Life's Overwhelming Burdens
Let keep digging into 2 Corinthians;“For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us...
weaknessJune 21, 2024
Embracing Weakness: When We Are Weak, Then We Are Strong
Without a doubt, this is one of my favorite verses in the Bible. “So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the...
spiritual-giftsJune 19, 2024
You Have a Gift to Share - Use It to Serve Others
Did you know you have a gift to share? You do, whether you are aware of it or not you’ve got one. Some times these gifts may not internal knowledge or a skill you share. Many times is as simple as sharing a gift God has blessed you with. Maybe it’s a ride for a friend when their car is broken dow...