I never will forget the feeling that overwhelmed our family in returning home to find our house had been burglarized. There was a feeling of disbelief at first as we went from room to room seeing things in total disarray as the intruders scattered whatever they didn’t want. What was most disheartening to my parents […]

How would you like to get more things done each day? This is not a sales pitch for the latest course in time management but there is one time of the day when you can be most productive without interruption that is advocated in the Bible and practiced by the Lord Jesus Christ. Mark 1:35 […]

There’s an old test that people have used to determine if you are an optimist or a pessimist: “Do you see the cup half-full or half-empty?” If you see the glass as half full, you are living in the anticipation of more whereas if you see the glass as half empty you live in anticipation […]

Everyone welcomes a new year because it signals a fresh start. Hence many people make new year’s resolutions to start that exercise program they’ve been putting off, or they proclaim their intentions to lose weight in the coming year. There’s just something about the changing of the calendar that says, “I may have failed in […]

How were things for your over this past year? Although 2021 was an improvement for the most part, most people have categorized the past two years as something of the “less desirable” state to say the least. If we aren’t careful we can dwell on the negative so much that we’ll find ourselves in a […]

When you hear of the hope of Christmas you have to realize there are a number of meanings behind that expression. For many people the hope of Christmas is the warm and fuzzy feeling they recall as a child looking forward to the time of opening gifts from Santa Claus. For others it’s the hope […]

It’s amazing how when frustrations of life hit us our first reaction is to think that God is mad at us as if He just flies off the handle for no apparent reason. Thankfully, that feeling is ungrounded, the flames of which need to be quenched by the truth of the word of God. The […]

There is much talk about gratitude around this time of year and rightly so. Our country’s leaders designated a time for gratitude years ago and although there is more emphasis on football and turkey than gratitude, at least there is a pause, and the word “thanksgiving” is still in our vocabulary. I believe, however, there […]

There is a “default mode” that all of us must constantly push aside that tells us that we have to achieve a certain level in order to find acceptance with God. One area that is always a stumbling block is the area of prayer, and especially the length of prayer. We hear of the prayer […]

When I was in college, I always carried a little paperback book with me that was a source of great encouragement. The book titled, “The Jesus Person Pocket Promise Book” was a compilation of 800 promises of God from God’s word by David Wilkerson. The promises were organized by topic of need, so it was […]