Recently a woman won the lottery worth $1.6 billion. We can only imagine how ecstatic she was. Can you imagine what you would do with $800 million (after taxes)? But what if she was terminally ill and only had a few months to live? Money drives our society. I don’t need to prove this. What […]

Are you currently in the will of God such that you can pray, “Do not abandon the work of your hands?” You are not praying that God not abandon YOU but rather He not abandon HIS work which is being done through you. David prays this prayer in Psalm 138:8 “The Lord will fulfill his […]

Are reading the Bible, praying, and participating in worship pleasant to you? Or are they duties that you feel you must do even though you find no pleasure in doing them? We human beings are joy (or pleasure) driven. Our will will follow what our heart delights in. Therefore, whatever we engage in, if we […]

The gospel is not: If you believe in Jesus and do good, then God will accept you. The gospel is: If you believe in Jesus, then God will accept you and you will want to do good. “I will not enter my house or get into my bed, I will not give sleep to my eyes […]

I ran across the other day a former youth who was in my ministry years ago. He was not following the Lord any more, but he seemed pretty happy and content. This encounter made me think: Is christian happiness different from that of unbelievers? Is christian hope different from that of unbelievers? What is our source […]

I tend to favor those who want to be favored. It is human nature to have my heart go out toward those whose hearts are after me. As a youth pastor of many years and now as a school teacher, there are students who want my attention and I usually respond with extra attention. Those […]

What if I gave all my math students 100% for the final grade regardless of how they are doing now? And I told them so, therefore they know their final grade is an A no matter what. And what if I told them that to make that happened, I stripped myself of all my college […]

I’m the most miserable when my eyes are focused on me. The more I look in, the more depressed I get! Therefore, it does me much good to get to my school early and take a stroll at a nearby park, taking in God’s beauty in it. If anything, it helps to take my eyes […]

Today is our church’s 8 year anniversary. We will be celebrating it this coming Sunday. Those of you who can, hopefully you will make it! These have been most adventuresome 8 years of my life. It felt like riding a rollercoaster at times. There are times when I’m at the top of the rail looking down at […]

What goals have you set for yourself? Is there an over-arching goal that trumps all the other goals? I have many goals I have set for myself. Such as, work out 3 times a week, read 3 books a month, read through the Bible once a year, spend more time with the family, etc. However, […]