Sometimes it’s the little things, the microscopic things, that cause the most pain and misery. One of my favorite authors, JC Ryle, in his book “Thoughts For Young Men” said, “A boy may bend an oak when it is a sapling- a hundred men cannot root it up, when it is a full grown tree.” The…
Harry Emerson Fosdick once said, “No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” No one likes to hear that word, that…
Sometimes the most beautiful, breath-taking places on earth are the toughest to get to. You may have to traverse difficult terrain…you may even have to cross raging rivers, BUT when you get to your destination you can look back and appreciate the beauty of the difficult journey. Such is life. We all love mountain top…
Joel 3:14 says, “Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.” It has been estimated that the average adult human will make approximately 35,000 decisions every day… 35,000! But children will only make approximately 3,000! As adults we bear a lot of responsibilities…
Did you know that the human body can go 40+ days without food, 11 days without sleep, but no more than 3 days without water? Why? Because water is your body’s transportation system. It transports nutrients to your tissues and aids in the removal of toxic waste from your system. Have you ever been really…
One of my favorite quotes is a quote from St. Augustine of Hippo, one of the early church fathers. He said, “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.” We live in a world that is restless, noisy, chaotic, stressful, and at times,…
No one is immune… no one can avoid them. Jesus promised us they would come, so what can we do when they knock on our door? I’m talking about tough times. C.S. Lewis once said, “He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.” God never promised us that He…
“Trust Me”… two little words that bear enormous weight and responsibility. The word “Trust” means, “a firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.” Trust is not something that we give away easily. J. Hudson Taylor at the end of his life said, “I am so weak that I can…