Effort Influences Destiny

“Remember this:  The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously” (2 Corinthians 9:6) How bad do you want it? How much are willing to do to get it? Your destiny is before you but the level at which you exist in it is determinedContinue reading “Effort Influences Destiny”

A Servant’s Heart

“When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.” Be wary of ambition for the world’s applause is deceitful and deceptive.  Seek to serve not to rule for pride comes in ruling. However, serving produces love. Awards stir the flames of pride. Jesus taught us to put out those flames.  He said, “So youContinue reading “A Servant’s Heart”

Good News at the Gravesite

10 Then the disciples returned to their homes. 11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look[a] into the tomb; 12 and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. 13Continue reading “Good News at the Gravesite”

Help For Those Who Are Stressed Out

“Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved” (Psalm 62:1) Stress has been linked to strokes, heart failure, and other diseases.  Stress can become overwhelming when you make too many life changes simultaneously.  OneContinue reading “Help For Those Who Are Stressed Out”

What do you value?

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matthew 6:21). It has been said that if you want to see what a person values,  find out what she spends her money on.  That is a superficial indicator dependent upon the premise everyone values money. Some people don’t place value on money andContinue reading “What do you value?”

The Investment Factor : A Changed People, Changing the World!

“These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.   Repeat them to your children.  Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.” (Deuteronomy 6:6-7) Invest in teaching,  mentoring, modeling your faith to yourContinue reading “The Investment Factor : A Changed People, Changing the World!”

Rethinking Crime and Violence..

“A slacker’s craving will kill him because his hands refuse to work. He is filled with craving  all day long, but the righteous give and don’t hold back.” (Proverbs 21:25-26) The slacker does not die alone.  When the righteous withholds charity from the slacker,  crime and violence are the results.  Poverty left to its ownContinue reading “Rethinking Crime and Violence..”

God’s Pathway to Salvation

5 For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, “The man who does those things shall live by them.” 6 But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down from above) 7 or, “‘Who willContinue reading “God’s Pathway to Salvation”

Slowing the Tide of Desertion From the Church by Our Children

Slowing the Tide of Church Desertion by our Young People Matthew 13: 24-30 “24 He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away.Continue reading “Slowing the Tide of Desertion From the Church by Our Children”

Why Kneeling Is Different When Praying!

Let us pray.  Some stood, others sat, and still others joined hands with the peson sitting next to them.  I looked throughout the congregation and to my surprise I saw someone stand, approach the front and kneel at the altar.  Stunned, I paused before beginning to pray.  I wanted so much to join that person atContinue reading “Why Kneeling Is Different When Praying!”