Are you married, engaged, or dating? Let’s put our relational shoes on and try to understand what’s happening behind the door to the other person’s mind this week. Many times we see someone behave a certain way, but in reality, that behavior is just a reaction to what is going…
Do you have a GPS? Many people have a GPS in their car, on their phone or on a wristwatch. GPS’s are everywhere. What do they do? Do they actually take us places? No, they give us directions where to go and it is our choice to follow the instructions….
Have you ever been tempted to use your tithe for something else? To rationalize that God doesn’t really need it. Or it would be nice to give it to a missionary instead of a local church? In our society, we are good at rationalizing. I know I have done it…
It seems like taboo for Pastors to talk about money and finances, yet the bible mentions it over 800 times. When the teacher repeats something, it’s probably going to be on the test. Money or lack of education about money or agreement about money is a major cause for divorce….
It can be so easy in a world with many options to find ourselves struggling to make a decision. We are surrounded by choices. We see them in commercials, on billboards, in the car lots we pass, on the grocery store aisles, on eBay or in the spouse we choose….
“…The soul of the diligent shall be made fat.” (Proverbs 13:4) We can also read that as PHAT, as in cool, awesome, dope, amazing or hip. Diligence equates to someone who is hard-working. The world we live in today has so many possibilities from manual labor to digital labor; we…
Don’t Let Money Drive You. You Drive Your Money My wife Nicole and I put ourselves on a budget. The next thing I know she comes home with a new dress. I asked her what happened and she said, “When I tried it on it looked GOOD. So I said,…
One of the challenges that Pastors have is the pressure of speaking for God or feeling we need to. Meaning we don’t have to interpret, we need to say what He says and He’ll take care of the rest. Perspective Can Change Our Life A woman came up to me…
Fear tolerated is faith contaminated. In your opinion, what does it take for something to be contaminated? If I have a bottle of water and put in a few drops of anti-freeze, does that make it contaminated? I hope you think it is! The enemy comes in and tries to…
We tend to believe that if we had more faith, if we had done better, if we had gotten saved sooner, if we had saved more money..then things would be better. NO! The Bible says if we have faith the size of a mustard seed, then we can move mountains!…
Do you ever feel like you give a lot but don’t get much in return? I think we all feel that way from time to time. There can come a time where if we aren’t plugged in to God, our power Source, we can use up all of our own…
We are bad news for the devil BECAUSE we have bad breath. By bad, I mean GOOD, POWERFUL, STRONG, with AUTHORITY! When we speak, things happen because God speaks through us. Repeat After Me They key is that we have to say what God tells us to say in His…
