WHAT ARE YOU MADE FOR?

Mark 2:27 Jesus says, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.”  The principle from Jesus is brilliant and applies to so many other things where we miss the point of something entirely and reverse the focus. We are religious about obsessing...

DO YOU EAT WITH SCUM?

But when the teachers of religious law who were Pharisees saw him eating with tax collectors and other sinners, they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat with such scum?” Mark 2:16 LB I once remarked mostly to myself, “Why would Jesus eat with scum?” My friend who...

HARD PRESSED

We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 Have ever felt like Paul in this passage? Disappointments, obstacles, failures, conflicts, struggles...

HOW ARE YOU DOING?

God says to us “I remember the devotion of your youth …”  Do we remember the devotion we had as a new believer? How does it rate with our zeal for God today?  Are we full of the little things that bless God, or are we fussing and complaining because we are not getting...

LOVE AS GOD LOVES US

I have been thinking lately what a work for God it is, just loving people. Lilias Trotter I was fresh out of the University of Oregon and did not even know if I’d like kids, I’d not been around any for years. But my home church in Milwaukee needed a Youth Pastor and...

PRAISE AND THANKS

O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men. Psalms 107:8 As we celebrate THANKSGIVING, let us focus on the Father and not on the food or even the fellowship.   May we strive to complain less and praise Him...