Stormy Weather - 1 Peter 1:13 - 2:10. A recipe for Fail-Proof Security in an Insecure World!   What does it take to weather any storm? Spend some time today reading and meditating upon the passages connected to the following six principles: LIVE for the future. (1:13) Be WILLING to be different. (1:16) Demonstrate a LOVING REVERENCE for our God. (1:17) DEEPLY LOVE our [...]

Corrie ten Boom once said, "In darkness, God's light shines most clear." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Jesus Christ said, "The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it." (John 1:5).  INTENTIONAL men of God [...]

Charles Colson: "If you don't have something worth dying for you don't have anything worth living for." William James: "The most important thing in life is to live your life for something more important than your life." Harold Kushner: "Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems [...]

In our Sunday Services this past month we have been challenged to make an INTENTIONAL shift in how we process our circumstances. We need to change our perspective. If we are to live joyfully, we must embrace God's perspective. We must learn to process our circumstances through His eyes. The Apostle Paul shares his theology on this conversation in Philippians 1:12 : [...]

From last week: "And now these three remain: faith, HOPE, and love. (1 Corinthians 13:13). Humankind has always struggled with the plague of discouragement; it is one of Satan's favorite tools to prevent us from being effective Kingdom servants. Discouragement is a disease; a universal, repeating, contagious, circumstantial and deadly disease. Everyone has contracted this disease. Last week we cited [...]

"And now these three remain: faith, HOPE, and love." (1 Corinthians 13:13). Humankind has always struggled with the plague of discouragement; it is one of Satan's favorite tools to prevent us from obeying our Mathew 28 mandate. Scripture provides many examples of  leaders who faced discouragement with their circumstances. For example: Moses: Ministry Failure; John Mark: Rejection by a Christian leader; Nehemiah: The Wall; Peter: Denying the Lord; Joseph: Rejection by [...]

I graduated from Biola College a several years ago. Many years later it became Biola University. Primarily the change from College to University is specific to the percentage of professors who possess advanced degrees in their fields of study. One of the benefits of this level of professorial expertise is the creation of amazing fields [...]

Happy New Year! "Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart." Psalm 37:4.  Our Father longs for us to be so delighted in Him that we would want what He wants. With the passing of 2020, take the time to reflect on what God has done, and allow Him to [...]

Happy New Year to you and yours! In Psalm 125:3, the Lord states: "The scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to do wrong." The word scepter to which the psalmist refers is kingly power held by Israelites who do not serve God and His [...]

Merry Christmas to you and yours! Pastor Jim Denison of the Denison Forum recently wrote about the need for believers to use this Christmas season to Redeem the Tipping Point within our culture. He comments: "As with every other season of this year, the many tragedies and challenges of 2020 are affecting Christians. But there is an opportunity in [...]