New Year…New Outlook

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ...

Using Our Gifts for Others

Christmas is a season filled with lights, music, and celebration—but beneath all of it is a quiet invitation from God: to use the gifts He has given us to bless others.I’ll keep this blog post with a Christmas theme; but we can and do use our God-given gifts all year...

BE SIGNIFICANT

Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.1 Peter 2:12  (NIV) We can be wealthy, successful and/or popular, but that doesn’t necessarily make us significant....

Love in the Hard Places

Love in the Hard PlacesYou intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.Genesis 50:20  NIVTwo weeks before the nation was shaken by the news of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, my own world was shaken by...

WHEN WE LOSE A LOVED ONE

Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who...

DO WE FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS?

Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation: Instruction will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations.Isaiah 51:4   (NIV) Last week, I commented to a friend that the little gizmo she suggested I order on Amazon wasn’t working anymore. The...