Matthew 6:21-23-For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,  23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!Have […]

Whose voice are you listening to? The christian life really comes down to it…It’s either the voice of the crowd or God. That’s always been the struggle from the beginning. Jesus constantly fought with the religious leaders of the day because they were listening to the voice of the crowd more than God. “But if we […]

Matthew 5:47-48-And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?  48  You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.  With my wife being out of town for the past week and half, the foreseen task of taking my kids to all their activities […]

Let me share something weird about myself. When I was little, I didn’t really want to grow up. I remember when I was in 6th grade, about to go into middle school, I didn’t look forward to going because I didn’t want to grow up. Why? Because I knew that to grow up meant that […]

Have you ever fantasized being great? Of course you have. I have. Growing up, I often fantasized being the greatest baseball player ever. When I became a pastor, I fantasized becoming the greatest pastor ever. Then, when I became a father, I fantasized being the greatest father ever.Silly? No. It’s innate. It’s in all of […]

Philippians 4:8–Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.  One of the things that I learned early on as a Christian, is the need to repent of sins in […]

Have you ever thought, “If God is really there, why wouldn’t He do this for me?” Or, “Why wouldn’t God make this right if He really is powerful and loving?” Those are questions serious enough to make us leave God and not follow Him anymore. Yet, the disciples who were with Jesus for 3 years had […]

Ecclesiastes 9:10–Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might,  for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.  As Christians, all of us probably have a scripture that has helped shaped our lives in some way.  The kind of scripture when you think […]

Is God personal to you? Do you know Him intimately? Do you spend one-on-one time with Him regularly? If not, you will distrust Him when tough times come. As I was reading Exodus, I was struck by two very different responses to the same event by two different people. When the Israelites were being chased […]

A mother of a teen once told me, “Being a student is what’s priority for my child right now. Once he gets his education, then he can serve God!” I forget what I said back to the mother. But if I could say it now, I would say, “Ma’am, you are saying it’s okay for […]