Anxiety/Worry There are times in our lives when we encounter certain circumstances that cause us to be anxious, fearful, confused, or troubled. When we encounter these types of situations in our lives, our initial response is key. In Philippians 4:6-7. The Apostle Paul instructs us on what our initial response should be to troubling situations.… Read More »

The Church Have you ever heard someone say, “I love Jesus, I just don’t like the church”? Did you know that in Scripture the church is referred to as “the bride of Christ?” So, saying “I love Jesus, but don’t like the church” would be the same as telling a man, “I really like you,… Read More »

Holy Week Reflections Pt. 2 In my last post we began looking at the different events that occurred during Holy Week. We have already considered Sunday to Wednesday, so now we take a look at Thursday to Saturday with some applications for each of us. Thursday- Jesus has the Last Supper with His 12 disciples.… Read More »

Holy Week Reflections This is Holy Week. Holy Week began for Jesus with great celebration and fanfare as he was welcomed into the city of Jerusalem with shouts of “Hosanna!” and “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” Just a few days later the shouts changed to “Crucify Him!” Then Jesus… Read More »

Time If you had a bank that credited your account each morning with $86,000 that carried over no balance from day to day, allowed you to keep no cash in your account, and every evening cancelled whatever part of the amount you failed to use during the day, what would you do? Draw out every… Read More »

Speaking the Truth in Love On Valentine’s Day weekend the focus of my message was the unconditional love of God. As followers of Jesus, we should reflect God’s unconditional love. But does showing unconditional love mean that we should ignore sin or not tell a person the truth? Absolutely not! If we truly love a… Read More »

Fear or Faith? There will be times in our lives when we stand at a crossroads. We are faced with a decision: will we step out in faith and do the hard thing that God has told us to do, or will we be ruled by fear and refuse to do what we clearly know… Read More »

The Word “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16 NIV). While the Word of God can often bring comfort to us, it was not given to us strictly for our comfort, as the verse above from 2 Timothy points out. In fact, there are… Read More »

LOOKING AHEAD  We are a few weeks into 2026. Are you excited about what the new year will bring, or are you more focused on what happened in the past? Some are so focused on what has happened in the past that they have difficulty in looking forward to what the future may hold. The… Read More »

Advent- Peace- Part 2 In a previous blog post, I shared that the primary peace that Jesus offers us is peace with God. He made peace with God possible when he died on a cross for our sins and then was raised from the dead 3 days later. The interesting thing is, when we establish… Read More »