“Let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.” (Ephesians 5:33) “Wives, submit to your husbands…Husbands, love your wives.” Here we have the apostle Paul’s Holy Spirit inspired instruction for a God honoring Christ-centered marriage: submission...
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! Psalm 136:1 Prayer is faith talking. Faith can’t help but want to talk to God. It’s what faith does; it prays. Those of faith look to God trusting who he is and what...
"And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “ ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ (Mark 7:6) In...
“Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold,...
“In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.” (Isaiah 29:18) If you love books, I can think of no better time to be living than now. Books are everywhere:...
“He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.” Titus 1:9 In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. It’s good to know what you are getting into...
Palm Sunday is upon us, the day Jesus rode upon a donkey on the road leading to the entrance into Jerusalem. The road was lined with people treating Jesus as a king by laying palm branches and even their cloaks on the road before him. The...
If you are a part of the weekly work force or a student whose rhythm of the work week is Monday through Friday, Wednesdays are commonly known as hump day. It’s right in the middle of the week where you have finally shed the Monday morning...
With Christmas season behind us, the hints of spring are already in the air. The sun is noticeably setting later in the day, in a couple of weeks we will be “springing” our clocks forward, and the season of Lent is just now underway. As the year...
Our church family is growing! Going into the new year, we would love to see our church continue to grow. The elders and I have a plan. It is foolproof. It is guaranteed to work. It doesn’t dip into the church budget; it doesn’t require extra staff,...