John Bunyan, the great author of A Pilgrim’s Progress, once said. “Saint abroad, and a devil at home.” This week in our #KINGDAVID series, we’ll be looking at 1 Samuel 28-30. David listened to his heart (mistake #1), defected to the camp of the Philistines so that Saul would leave him alone (mistake #2), and…
In the first and second week of our 2016 Advent series, we’ve looked at the significance of three trees… the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the tree of life, and the tree that was used to build the manger. In each of those gatherings we opened two gifts: the gift of choice…
Corrie Ten Boom once asked, “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?” It’s a valid question… one that only you can really answer. If you could read a manuscript of your prayers last week, what would it say? Would it embarrass you? Would you make excuses? As James concludes his letter to the…
How do you handle suffering? What do you do when your world is flipped upside-down? How does the Mechanical Christian react to suffering? In James 5:7-12, James now turns his attention from the rich oppressors to the poor who were being oppressed. Job tell us that “Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly…
Why do you do what you do every single day? Why do you work so hard? Why do you endure the headaches, the workplace conflicts, the pressures of making that last sale? I guess a better question would be… what would it take to satisfy you? More money? The latest gadget? The next promotion? Neil…
Today you’ve been given a gift… a gift of 86,400 seconds. What will you do with them? If you’re like most people, you’ll probably waste the moments you have by dreaming about the moments you’ve already planned. There’s only one slight problem… THIS moment is in your hand, but tomorrow’s moment may NEVER come. Let…
“Why can’t you two just get along?”… “I can’t understand why he treats me that way”… “Why can’t she just apologize and move on?”… ever catch yourself saying these things? Conflict can be brutal. In C.S. Lewis’ book, The Problem of Pain, he said, “The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender…
In his classic, Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis said, “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.” This week in…
According to an article in the Harvard Business Review, for every compliment a person receives, he/she has had to endure SIX or more criticisms…and we wonder why the workplace can be so miserable. Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall!” How often…
This past Sunday millions gathered together to watch the epic finale of the 2015-2016 football season, Super Bowl 50 (“50” because our society struggles with Roman Numerals and “50” in Roman Numerals is simply “L”… and that’s boring). On Monday, hundreds of thousands of those fans took to social media to debate the best commercials,…