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It’s About the Heart – A Relationship With God

It’s often said that Christianity is different than any other religion because Christianity is not really a religion as much as it is a relationship. God created people to have a relationship with Him, and when we sinned, the relationship was broken.  That didn’t stop God from wanting that relationship, it just meant that it [...]

It’s About the Heart – He Is Everything

If God is a part of your life, then you have to ask yourself, how much of my life is His?  You see, He will not rest until He makes you into the image of His dear Son.  He wants to be the Lord of your life. That means that there are two different people [...]

Job

The patience of Job is something of legend.  The stage is set in Job 1, where Satan approaches God to talk about the people down on Earth and God directs his attention to Job. Satan is quick to tell God that the reason that Job worships him is because God has richly blessed him: Family [...]

Elijah

Somewhat out of nowhere, Elijah appears on the scene at the court of King Ahab of Israel and promises a drought until he says it will stop.  It’s not clear whether King Ahab believes him or not, and yet the next thing we know, Elijah is whisked off to the Brook Cherith to be fed [...]

Jacob

In Genesis 32, Jacob is headed back home after working for his Uncle Laban for over 14 years.  He has his two wives, two maidservants and all of the rest of the servants and children in tow as they had back to Caanan when they get news that his brother Esau is headed out to [...]

Adam

Adam.  The first man created by God.  We know very little about this man when compared to some of the other greats in the Bible.  And yet, by him we get the names for the animals, from his rib we have woman, and by him sin entered into the world. And yet one of the [...]

Let Your Light So Shine

Tonight we were unpacking the garage.  Well, kinda unpacking.  I just finished getting the garage in the old house almost cleaned out, and there are a whole bunch of card board boxes in the garage, and since it was warm we decided to do some organizing.  Anyway, I decided to check the fluids in my [...]

The Value of Your Word

Life is full of competing priorities.  The older you get, the more you find many different things that will compete for every minute—and this is something that’s only gotten worse with modern technology.  There will be projects that need to get done, a family wanting your time, and your body won’t always cooperate. This is [...]

If This Was Placed Up To Your Heart…

What would you hear?

You R Going 2 Die

So said the scrawling on the bathroom stall I found myself in Monday morning.  Now, I guess I could have taken it as a warning, and left immediately, but instead I found myself reflecting on the fact that we’re all mortal, and we all have a short time on Earth to make an impact.

So I Must Be Part Artist

They say that artists are a temperamental lot.  They’re easily upset, and they may blow up at any time.  I don’t think that, up to this point, I would have considered myself an artist1, but in the recent days my reaction to stress has been less than appropriate. I have been in a lot of [...]

Remember Amalek

As the children of Israel were leaving Egypt and headed back towards the promised land, you can imagine that the site of them created quite a stir.  There will at least a million of these people, many different ages, traveling across the terrain, and, as you probably can imagine, some would want to take advantage [...]

Following God Like Abigail

What’s interesting is just how much like sheep people are.  Sure, we all want to think that we’re unique, different and open minded (or at least some of us do) and we like to point at others that are “brainwashing their children” or “closed to other possibilities” but in reality we’re all this way.  On [...]

Lessons From Joshua

In regards to doing great things for God, I think that one of the reasons that we don’t see God doing the great works that He did of old is not that He’s changed or not that He’s silent, but that we really don’t believe we need him. At what time in the world’s history [...]

Strength Through the Uncertain Times

It’s easy to trust God in the good times– where everything is going well, and it’s all going according to how you’ve planned.  It’s the same thing that the Devil said to God about Job– Job loves you, God, because you bless Him.  In the next few chapters of the book we see the Devil [...]

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