David Platt once said, “The price is certainly high for people who don’t know Christ and who live in a world where Christians shrink back from self-denying faith and settle into self-indulging faith. While Christians choose to spend their lives fulfilling the American dream instead of giving their lives to proclaiming the kingdom of God,…
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…
As we wrap up our #Runaway series this week, there is a quote from Thomas Paine’s pamphlet series “Common Sense” that I believe summarizes the story of Jonah quite well. Paine said, “It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt”. Does that not summarize the…
Some lessons in life are only learned through adversity. Charles Spurgeon once said, “Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.” Have you ever attended life’s School of Hard Knocks? If you haven’t, I’m sure life will make sure that you are enrolled soon.…
When speaking of prodigals, Augustine once said, “You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You.” If there is a truth God that has been teaching me this week as I’ve been preparing for this Sunday it’s this, God doesn’t do anything or allow anything without eternity in mind.…