I heard a great sermon a few weeks ago. There was an illustration that encouraged me and gave me hope—but challenged me that often my feelings don’t tell me the truth.The preacher reminded us we have three types of real enemies: our own s

See Your Words with New Eyes

Aug 12th, 2022 5m 11s

There’s a well-known proverb that talks about the words we use. You heard it on the playground as a kid. Maybe you came crying into the house and your parents tried to encourage you with this proverb. It goes like this - sticks and stones may

Is Your Soul Thirsty?

Apr 13th, 2022 7m 11s

God wrote the Bible, through men, over thousands of years. It covers hundreds of topics, but has one overarching goal—to show us who God is, how much we need him, and how to find him and then follow him. God is the perfect author, and he kn

Don’t Let Them Get To You

Mar 9th, 2022 4m 58s

You know the scene well. You’ve seen it in countless movies, whether comedies or dramas. Someone is being a jerk. They’re real proud of themselves, too. Maybe they are bullying the main character or breaking all the rules and laughing about it

Disappointment and Faith

Feb 9th, 2022 6m 18s

The gavel comes down with a crash. The judgment is rendered, final. Nothing and no one can overturn it now. After staring ahead for years, with vacant eyes, at inevitable, solitary confinement, I can’t believe that the echoing report of the ga

Healthy Competition

Oct 29th, 2021 5m 26s

I love well-made things, especially when they are doing what they were designed to do. Don’t you? Picture a balanced, razor-sharp chef’s knife cutting slices of tomato; a lifted off-road vehicle crawling through a boulder field; a fine music

Do You Want to Walk on Water?

Sep 24th, 2021 5m 59s

I hope so, because one of my all-time favorite true stories in the bible is the story of Jesus walking on the surface of the Sea of Galilee, and Peter getting out of his boat to also walk on water. I’ll read you the story in a minute, but he

Roots, Leaves, & Fruit

Sep 10th, 2021 3m 31s

Roots aren’t pretty, are they? Nor are they even visible when they are doing what they are supposed to do. Dirty, unseen, gnarled things.And yet it is the investment in the root that allows any life at all, but especially healthy growth and b

The Prince's Bride (Part 2)

Aug 27th, 2021 26m 23s

Welcome back for the second half of my short story, The Prince's Bride, where we find out what happens to Sophia after she finds that a disease has begun spreading over her hands and arms.

The Prince's Bride (Part 1)

Aug 13th, 2021 23m 39s

I'm excited to share something a bit different today - the first part of the short story I wrote for my daughter, Sophia. I wanted to write a fun and exciting fictional story that resonates the truth of the gospel and all that is ours in Jesus,

What is Your Net Worth?

Jul 23rd, 2021 8m 18s

In Junior High and High School we begin asking ourselves the lifelong question, “What is my net worth, as a human?” We continue to ask ourselves this question and the only difference between a middle-aged person and a high schooler is that w

My Portion Forever

May 28th, 2021 4m 35s

Psalm 73:23-26Nevertheless, I am continually with you;you hold my right hand.You guide me with your counsel,and afterward you will receive me to glory.Whom have I in heaven but you?And there is nothing on earth that I desire b

Is There Enough For Me?

May 14th, 2021 4m 17s

Mark 8:1-2, 6-9In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, [Jesus] called his disciples to him and said to them, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have

Imagine Everything Made New

May 1st, 2021 4m 51s

Revelation 21:3-5a And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away ever

You Are My Friends

Apr 16th, 2021 4m 16s

John 15:13-15 NLTThere is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since

Slaves to Sin or Righteousness

Mar 19th, 2021 5m 24s

Romans 6:16-17, 20-22Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to

While We Were Still Weak

Mar 5th, 2021 2m 43s

Romans 5:6For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows his love for us in that while

He Gave His Life A Ransom For Many (Part 2)

Feb 19th, 2021 3m 49s

Mark 10:42-45And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever w

He Gave His Life A Ransom For Many (Part 1)

Feb 5th, 2021 4m

Mark 10:45For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.The picture of God offering Jesus as a ransom for many is one of the most powerful, illustrated truths in the Bible. So, I want

Foolishness or Wisdom and Power?

Jan 22nd, 2021 4m 3s

1 Corinthians 1:17 – 25For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, b

Welcome to the Family

Jan 8th, 2021 3m 58s

1 John 3:1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! The letter of 1 John is very different from other letters in the new testament, like Romans or Galatia

There Is One Mediator

Dec 25th, 2020 6m 27s

1 Timothy 2:5-6For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. Verse 5 makes very clear that there aren’t man

The Word Became Human

Dec 11th, 2020 5m 50s

John 1:14And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.The first two gospels (Matthew and Mark) were written between 50-60 AD. Then Luke came aft

To Present Us Holy and Blameless

Nov 27th, 2020 5m

Colossians 1:15, 19-22He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. [In] him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making pe

Rich In Mercy (Part 2)

Nov 13th, 2020 5m 15s

Ephesians 2:1-7 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom