Summertime Fun

Dear Parents, I love summertime. The weather is warm, kids are outside playing and people just seem to be a little nicer. As a kid, I couldn’t wait for summer. No more school. No more homework. [...]

It’s so easy to forget that we are uniquely gifted to handle exactly what God puts before us. The world distracts us and convinces us too often that we’re not good enough, nowhere [...]

When you can see what Jesus saved you from, you can’t help but harbor a grateful heart. That gratefulness overflows into everything you think, say, and do. You can’t stop it from [...]

We can become so caught up with the shiny things of this world, or something clever being said or done, that the real pursuit of the actual presence of God dissipates. It dances away from our [...]

Are you trying to chase down God’s approval? Are you not accepting that in Christ He already approved of you? Are you so distracted by the things you need to do that you can’t sit [...]

Dear Parents, I don’t know about you, but teaching responsibility to your children can be one of the most frustrating aspects of parenting. As parents, we assume that responsibility is somehow a [...]

Without blemish…what does that really mean to us? For us? Jesus Christ has secured for us through the cross, through the resurrection, life forever with God in perfected, glorified spirits [...]

Even the most sincere follower of Christ struggles to put God first in everything at every moment. But this is not a surprise to Him. He knew this would be impossible for us to do without help. [...]

No matter what religion or philosophy we might pursue, we are all seeking the same answers in life and wondering who holds the answers to the deepest questions in life. The Bible and all of [...]

In order to truly pursue the spirit of God, we must reject misleading spirits that lead us elsewhere. This series has explored three such examples in Rehoboam, Eli, and Hezekiah. When we truly [...]