God’s Will?

Our Father’s will and great pleasure is to give us all that we need! People that make us laugh, people gifted to sing, dance, and folks that play the piano, violin, drums, all for our pleasure. The fullness of life includes laughing with others. An emotion we get to experience in heaven, eternally. Sarah said,…

John C Maxwell

John Maxwell’s reflections on “finishing well” resonate deeply with 2 Timothy 4. This letter yet encourages perseverance and faithfulness until the end of one’s journey. At age 80, Maxwell exhorts believers to not mix their faith in Jesus with faith in their successes. We each leave a legacy every time we humbly reflect Jesus, or…

Grace Abounds

By God’s grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit in me, I write this publically to personally apply Romans 5.  “Therefore, since I have been JUSTIFIED through FAITH, I have PEACE with GOD through my Lord JESUS Christ, through WHOM I have GAINED access by FAITH into this GRACE in which I now stand.…

Willing Sin

If you have tried and tried again to get rid of a sin and you repeatedly fail, you’re not dealing with a sin anymore. You’re dealing with a stronghold. There is a critical difference between sin and tough strongholds.  There are effective spiritual warfare strategies required to overcome a persistent sin, and any lingering strongholds. King James…

Satisfaction

The world keeps changing the names of the treasures, but the pursuit remains the same. People still chase laughter to escape sorrow. We seek entertainment to escape silence. We desire more possessions to escape insecurity. We strive to accomplish to escape insignificance. We seek social status to escape being forgotten. Ecclesiastes demonstrates the ultimate futility…

Full Disclosure

Jesus gives us full disclosure: 1. The Christ Means “the Anointed One” or the “Messiah” This title affirms Jesus as the one chosen by God to fulfill the prophecies of the Hebrew Scriptures. 2. The Lord is His title that denotes authority and His divinity.   Jesus as the sovereign Ruler over heaven and earth. 3.…