Do you realize that if you are not running His race you are in essence engaging in exhaustion? You see, when we run with the world we will be rewarded with a mind that regularly wrestles with worry or strapped with stress, bounded by burdens, and anchored in anxiety. Parents, pastors, professionals, politicians: no matter what place or station in which you find yourself, everyone is pummeled and pushed around with the pressures of life. Does making more money mitigate the madness? What if we drown ourselves with a drink or deliver ourselves from duress with drugs? So where do you go? What do you do? To whom do you turn for tranquility?
Read MoreAs we continue to discuss the essential nature of trust in our relationship with God, let’s review a key point from last week’s blog. Whatever or whoever we trust more than God is an idol.
An IDOL is something that affects the following areas of your life:
Influence
Direction
Obedience
Love
I open this week’s blog with the lyrics of not only a popular but a powerful piece of Christian music from Lauren Daigle. Daigle is an American contemporary Christian music singer-songwriter from Lafayette, Louisiana. Her song “Trust in You” truly captures a transcending principle that is paramount for a pure, persistent and personal relationship with God...
Read MoreAs we continue to capture the concrete call of repentance; yes, that word that Jesus was not afraid to say, I would like you to march with me down memory lane. March you say? Yes, march, because that is where we will discover some insight into the word repentance....
Read MoreThis week's blog is rated “R – restricted” from those individuals that do not want change and for those who forfeit victory and fix themselves in vices. The subject of this week’s blog can secure sincere transformation for those who trust the “Truth” (the Word of God).
Read MoreHave you ever been in a place where you believed that you had not seen God move in your life recently? Is it possible the reason you believed that to be true is due to your preoccupation with the problems you experienced including relational, financial, professional, social and physical issues? Sometimes the experience of failure and unfulfilled expectations causes us to cry out: “God, where are you?”
Read MoreBy way of introduction for this week’s blog offering I offer to you idiomatic expressions. Idiomatic expressions are a type of informal English that have a meaning different from the meaning of the words in the expression. For example consider the following:
“All roads lead to Rome”: An expression meaning that many methods will lead to the same result ...
Read MoreIn light of Resurrection Day, I thought it important to process the price that Jesus paid to purchase a personal relationship with God for us. A review of the Levitical law indicates that sacrifice was required to compensate for man’s sin nature. As sin separates us from a holy and righteous God (Isaiah 59:2), the blood of an animal sacrifice offered a tangible visual for the cost required to reconcile man to God. More importantly, the Levitical system established man’s need for a Savior. In response, God sent His Son, Jesus Christ to fulfill the Law that we might be reconciled to Him (Matthew 5:17).
Read MoreHave you ever considered the weather condition, “fog”? What is it? Fog creates a cloud-like covering over surface areas - be it land, water or sea at any time. According to meteorologists, fog can develop immediately when warm surface temperatures confront and collide with cool air. Subsequently visibility is reduced to zero. ...
Read MoreFor all the football fans in the blogosphere I open this week blog with a personal fact. I have been a Dallas Cowboy football fan since 1970. Yes, I know all of you Giants, Redskins and Eagle fans are putting me on your prayer list. Perhaps if you are an ardent adversarial fan against America’s team you probably would like to accost me and take me to your team’s stadium for a stoning. But you need to know that I began to root for the team with the blue stars on their helmets when one of Dallas’s big stars Rayfield Wright came to my elementary school when I was in the sixth grade! Needless to say since then I have been smitten with a significant stroke of starstruck. So how ‘bout them Cowboys?! ...
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