(Recommended reading:  Luke 1:26-38 - Quoted scriptures from NLT) (For those of you that have been following my blog for a long time, this article will likely sound familiar; it is a reprint of one I posted in 2021. But it's the favorite of my Mother's Day messages, so I couldn't resist.) We do not … Continue reading A Mother’s Love →

Many - probably even most - of Jesus’ disciples were excellent at making effective connections with others.  They had to be competent at that in order to spread the word about Christianity as they had been commanded to do.  Jesus’ hand-picked 12 apostles were, for the most part, ordinary men - most weren’t professional or … Continue reading Effective Connections →

(Recommended reading:  Acts 6:1-7) I believe that there are things we each are destined to do in and with our lives.  Some people recognize what this is early in their life and pursue it.  Some learn it along the way, while others fall into it by accident.  Then there are those that ignore or avoid … Continue reading Stand Up & Do Your Thing – Fill Your Pulpit! →

(Recommended reading:  Exodus 11 & 12 - Quoted scripture is from the Living New Testament) This year, the evening of April 22, 2024 at sunset - marks the beginning of the celebration of Passover week.  It is one of the major holidays/celebrations for Jewish people around the world.  Depending on which sect of the Jewish … Continue reading Passover →

Before the Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movies starting in the mid-90’s, there was a television series by the same name that inspired those movies.  The TV show aired from 1966 to 1973, then it was revived for a couple of years in 1988.  Those of you anywhere near my age may have watched that show … Continue reading Your mission, should you choose to accept it… →

A couple of my recent morning devotionals have talked about a man named John Hyde.  He was born in Illinois and was the son of a minister.  He attended college then went on to seminary where in his senior year, he believed that he was being called to be a missionary and that he was … Continue reading Be A World Changer →

Probably the most important week in the history of our world is the six days that God spent creating the world then resting on the seventh.  Next to that, the most monumental week would have to be the last week of Jesus’ life on earth.  So let us review the week that was: On that … Continue reading The Week That Was →

Good Friday?  Really? It has always been a bit confusing for me as to why such a momentous and truly horrible incident could result in a day being called Good Friday - when in my mind it seems more appropriate that it should be called Bad Friday or maybe even Black Friday.   There are other … Continue reading Bad Friday Good? →

Today is Palm Sunday - the beginning of what Christians call Holy Week.  It marks the beginning of the end for Jesus on this earth. It is a celebration of the day that Jesus, along with His disciples, returned to Jerusalem.  There were a lot of people in Jerusalem at that time because of the … Continue reading The Beginning of the End →

I’ve been studying in the books of Joshua and Judges the past couple of weeks and there’s so much packed into these books that we should pay close attention to for direction. In Judges 2, you read about the deaths of Israel’s strong leadership - Joshua, that led them into their promised land and directed … Continue reading Slippery Slope →