Wouldn’t it have been nice if everything about us changed automatically at the moment of our conversion? That all our hang ups disappeared? All our anxieties gone? All our habits changed? But there is nothing automatic about the transformation. It takes work. It is trial and error over and over and over… Sometimes the sanctification […]

God insists on using human beings. Things He could do by Himself, He insists on involving human beings to accomplish His purpose. For example, in Acts 10, God sends an angel to a Roman captain named Cornelius to tell him to go find Peter. Once he finds Peter, he gathers all his friends and relatives […]

How do you approach a problem in your life? Do you try to solve it entirely through spiritual means or practical means? By spiritual, I mean prayer and the word, and by practical, strategies and reorganizations and such. I find it fascinating how the early church dealt with a practical problem. In Acts 6, it […]

Is it possible that two people who are in similar circumstances be vastly different in how happy they are? Imagine two Americans, both married with children, stable jobs, living in middle class houses, and good health. However, one had lost all his investments in the stock market and went from being a millionaire to a […]

Good afternoon everyone, Genesis 2:3-So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. Especially in our day, it is hard to consider what rest or a Sabbath really looks like. Our culture no matter where we live seems to […]

One of the ways we know we are making the gospel saturate our hearts and minds is in experiencing freedom. Are you free? Are you truly free? Let’s test… – Are you free from what others think of you? – Are you free from anxiety about the future? – Are you free from materialism and […]

As One Family, This weekend I was able to attend a funeral for my friend’s father who passed very unexpectedly. I was told that the past few years, especially, were not his most successful. He was a dentist of over 30 yrs, spent the last 27 yrs of his life building and working out of […]

God is self-centered. He will not share His glory with anyone. He is fiercely protective of defending His name. “I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give no other, nor my praise to carved idols.” Isa. 42:8 I realized this yesterday as I was talking with friends after church. It seemed […]

Have you tried to stop sinning? It’s hard, isn’t it? Some sins need more than will-power to stop. Because at the point of sin, it is the very will-power that loses its power and there’s nothing holding us back from sinning. So it doesn’t really matter how resolved we are at not sinning, when the […]

Psalm 31:1-In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me! When we sit down and ask ourselves the question who has shamed us more than anyone else in our lives, how many of us would answer ourselves? The decisions we make in our adult […]