Don’t let your differences separate you from others.

Drive around any town and you’ll see lots of different churches: Baptist churches, Presbyterian churches, Methodist churches, Independent Bible churches, Catholic churches, Pentecostal churches, Orthodox churches, and Lutheran churches It can all be rather confusing.
It’s fine that we have different churches with different names and different […]

Joy gives you wings in difficult circumstances; the problems don’t go away, but you can rise above them.

Think about being in the presence of the most caring, compassionate and loving person that you know. Now, multiply that feeling a hundred times, and you may get a sense of what it was like for the […]

Control your anger or it will control you.
No emotion ignites quicker than anger. Yes, there is such a thing as love at first sight, but it’s rare. Happiness takes a while to unfold, and sadness seems to creep up on you. But anger is different animal. Someone says the wrong thing, […]

Motivation can fade. Habits prevail.
Every once in a while, we need to hear a great motivational sermon. It can really recharge our spiritual batteries. But you must avoid becoming a motivational junkie–the kind of person who has to be hyped up emotionally before you can get going. If you become dependent […]

What you think determines what you do.

“The mind is a terrible thing to waste.” No kidding. But mere knowledge isn’t going to remedy the situation. A lot of brilliant people have done some pretty stupid stuff. Our minds don’t need more information to get right. Our minds need transformation.
The only […]

You won’t transform spiritually if you continue to conform culturally.

There is tremendous pressure to conform to our culture. Few of us want to stick out where we are subject to ridicule. It is much safer, we think, to blend in and go along with the group mentality. But have you noticed that […]

Your willingness to listen is your gift to others.

The most important part of communication is listening. We all know that, yet we are so quick to tell others what we think, and only then do we listen (mainly to hear what they think of what we just said).
Like it does so often, the Bible […]

The real test of how much your care for your friend is whether you are willing to confront your friend.
Today we’re going to talk about a subject that you aren’t going to like: confrontation. It is our humble (but probably correct) opinion that you avoid confrontations. How do we know this? […]

Appreciate the commands of Scripture as much as the promises.
How we love the promises of God! When you read the Bible and uncover a verse like Hebrews 11:6–”God…rewards those who sincerely seek him”–it’s like you’ve found a treasure. Our natural inclination is to want to “claim” a promise of God like a prospector […]

Faith placed in God prevails. Faith placed anywhere else fails.

At its core, faith is believing that someone or something will be worthwhile in your life. The problem with the world is not that people lack faith. The problem is that their faith is misplaced. Most people have put their faith in […]