Are you ready for a change?

I am disappointed – disappointed in myself.  We are so corrupt and I have contributed to the problem.  In a family devotional today, we were talking about sowing seeds.  Sow to the flesh and you reap corruption.  Sow to the spirit and you reap eternal life.  I have sown to the flesh.  When I refer…
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Is your history repeating itself?

We all have a history.  What’s in yours?  I have talked to people who wish they had not always taken the narrow, less traveled path.  They feel separated from the world.  They often feel alone, unable to relate to those who have traveled the wider path, the one that leads to destruction.  I envy these people who…
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Why aren’t we more passionate about our faith?

One of my wife’s friends gave a collection of DVDs to our kids for Christmas.  The collection is entitled “Passion Talk Series: The Essential Collection” by Louie Giglio.  We always screen everything before we let the kids watch it.  We read a review about it, watch it, or both.  The reviews that we often read are published by Dove Foundation,…
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God’s not dead

Last night, my wife and I attended a local school board meeting concerning exemption from compulsory school attendance.  Our local school board had passed a policy that required children 14 years old or older to submit a statement about their religious beliefs.  In accordance with this policy, the board could schedule a meeting with the…
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God blesses those who work hard

God blesses those who work hard.  The bible doesn’t say that you have to be a genius to be rewarded.  But we have to work hard.  Proverbs is replete with teachings about being rewarded for our diligence.  It says that the desires of the diligent will be satisfied.  In contrast, those who do not work…
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Are you all pumped up for the Super Bowl?

Yesterday, I was visiting extended family, picking up my kids who had spent Saturday night there while my wife and I went on a (semi-annual) date – we really should get out more often.  Anyway, my son was there on the floor, playing Monopoly, right in front of the television, with the football game on.  Now, if you have read any of my…
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How is your relationship with God?

Do you remember when you first fell in love, the euphoric feeling that you experienced?  I couldn’t spend enough time with my wife when I first met her.  I remember sitting up with her until the wee hours of the morning and having to go to work early the next day.  It seems like we…
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Are you special in the sight of God?

When I think about bible characters, the ones who stick out the most in my mind are the characters who were truly favored by God.  The bible refers to David as the apple in God’s eye.  It says that David was a man after God’s heart.  But David committed adultery with Bathsheba, tried to cover…
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Should we focus on the positive?

I frequently endure criticism because my focus is often on sin and its prevalence in our culture.  It can arguably be said that this is unbiblical.  We are to think about those things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report.  When we do this, when we think upon these things, maybe we don’t…
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What’s popular in our culture today?

In America, we profess to be predominantly of Christian faith.  But maybe that more accurately describes our origins.  We come from a lineage of Christians.  But many of us do not appear to be Christians.  At least, we don’t act like it. And it’s not popular to be a Christian in our culture. It’s easy…
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