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COME EXPECTING
When we awaken each day, we can come expecting good things. Today is the day you can start believing something good is going to happen to you. Why? Because God is working in your life right now, and...
THE WIZARD OF OZ AND OUR GREAT GOD
“Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another,...
WHATEVER
For 9 years straight, the word “whatever” has been voted the most annoying word in America according to a yearly poll put out by Marist College. 9 years in a row! I’d like to attempt to redeem that...
Spirit of Revival
A spirit of revival is breaking out in a Christian college in Asbury, Kentucky. On February 8, the service at Asbury University ended with a benediction and a song by the choir, but the students...
STAFF ONLY
“He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a STAFF -no bread, no bag, no money in their belts” -Mark 6:8 I recently heard multiple pastors and theologians explain the use of the staff...
Reboot – Come Expecting
As we awaken each day, it’s like a reboot. As we wake up, we can start thanking God for all the blessings in our lives. During our morning prayer call, on our church conference call, Peggy shared...
OK TO PRAY
Increasingly it’s become unpopular or even unacceptable to pray publicly in America. Our public schools want nothing of prayer in the schools, despite the fact that right up until 1962, it was the...
GET UP
“For the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.” Proverbs 24:16 Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness,...
The Father’s Love
John 3:16 For God so loved the world he gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. 1 John 3:1 See what great love God has for us that we should be...
A Christmas Carol
Let’s begin with a bit of Christmas trivia: Did you know “Jingle Bells” was originally a song written for Thanksgiving and not Christmas? Thurl Ravenscroft is the vocalist for the Christmas classic,...
PLUS, MINUS, EQUAL
He was voted “Fighter of the Decade” for the 1990’s. He held World Championship Belts in multiple weight classes and disciplines. In short, this guy was A BEAST! His name is Frank Shamrock. I know...
GIVE THANKS
Give Thanks Thanksgiving is so much more than turkey and football. When you praise and thank God, you invite God's glory and presence into your heart and into the room. Jesus’s words in Isiah 61:3:...
PRISON BARS OR GUARDRAILS
"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be dominated by anything. 1 Corinthians 6:12 The Apostle Paul, in writing to the...
THE AGONY OF DEFEAT, BUT NEVER DEFEATED
“…the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.” Proverbs 24:16 Vinko Bogataj, you don’t realize it, but if you're 40 years of age or older, you...
A Recipe for Joy
Joy is the birthright of every child of God!! I will always remember the pure joy that filled me the day I prayed a simple prayer of faith. It was the day I received Jesus as my Lord and my Savior....
CANCEL CULTURE
1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 3...
A MESSAGE FROM THE KING
“How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they...
UNIQUELY CREATED BY GOD
When King David wrote Psalm 139, he recognized that the days of his life were written in God's book before he was even born. He acknowledged that God knows everything, is everywhere and is the...
The Word
Philip Mauro (1859-1952) was a successful lawyer and had a knack for being part of the century's most epic events. He was aboard the USS Carpathia that rescued the survivors of the Titanic (Leonardo...
FLIP IT
“And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” -Romans 8:28 We have this painting hanging in our church headquarters...
PURSUE YOUR DREAM
Many people spend a lifetime chasing after dreams only to find emptiness in the accomplishment. There is something missing an unfulfilled longing. Dream chasing is only relevant when it is rooted in...