"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding" (Proverbs 3:5). INTENTIONAL men of God know that we must learn to be obedient to this "simple" command every moment of every day, if we are to walk with God as He intended. This famous passage from Proverbs contains 7 daily steps [...]

At the end of this month, Pastor Phil will begin a summer sermon series based upon Colossians 2:7: "Having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude." It is our challenge to our church community to embrace a Personal Growth [...]

Interesting days in which we find ourselves. "Pandemic" aside, over the last couple weeks I have been attempting to process things that I can not relate to. I really do not know what it is like to experience racial discrimination. I have not, and do not face systemic poverty. My encounters with injustice pale in [...]

Repair or replace? I am definitely a replace kind of guy...not because I want to be...but because I am not really handy. I tend to be a duct tape zip tie and JB Weld kind of guy; not a fix, just a band-aid. One thing I know that is not fixable no matter how "handy" [...]

I read an article the other day entitled "Beware the protection of Pharaoh". The setting is Isaiah 30 and opens with the nation of Israel divided into the ten tribes of Israel in the north and the two tribes of Judah in the south. God's chosen people were surrounded by the two most powerful nations on earth; [...]

"For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in [...]

"You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow to it, for I am the Lord your God" (Leviticus 26:1). Is this verse, which was obviously relevant in a day when Israel's Promised Land was filled with peoples worshiping [...]

Writing from a Roman prison, to the church community in Philippi (Philippians 4:4), Paul makes this declaration, "Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice." We also learn of Paul rejoicing while wrongfully imprisoned in Acts 16:23,  and we find him expressing joy in 2 Corinthians 12:9 while ill with his "thorn in the flesh." Clearly the Lord desires [...]

There are only two kinds of men: those who function out of fear and those who function out of faith. I know what kind of man I aspire to be. I desperately want to walk by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7). So much of what I "see" makes me fearful. Fear is a sin that [...]

In Psalm 81, the Lord says to His people, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.” (v.10a) This sentence captures a miracle that transcends anything we can fully comprehend.  Pastor Jim Denison comments: “Egypt was the greatest empire the world had ever seen, its military feared the world over. […]