3 Minutes in the Deep (Devotional): Does Your Heart Speak?

Does your heart speak? Does your heart converse with God? “You have said, ‘Seek My face,’ My heart says to You, ‘Your face LORD, do I seek.”   Psalm 27:8 Truth is revealed in the innermost […]

Before You Make Next Year’s Resolutions, Remember This Year’s Blessings – Life Tip of the Week

As I contemplate the coming new year, I am reminded to review the happenings of the past year. The words of an old hymn come to mind… Count your blessings, name them one by one, […]

How to Avoid the “Holiday Fight”

Disclaimer: I have (to borrow an expression from the South) “acted the fool” in my own life, so I do not speak from moral high ground, just personal experience and what I glean from Words […]

Faithful When the Road Darkens

Where in your life is your understanding unclear? Are there circumstances, situations and outcomes that simply don’t make sense? For the business leader, parent, employee or student there is and always will be a certain […]

8 Things to Pray for Your Kids (and for yourself as well)

Raising children is difficult and often overwhelming. Raising children to follow Christ in today’s culture seems practically impossible. Your children are impressionable. The world will seek to impress upon them its values and standards. However, your prayers and […]

Four Reasons Why We’re Not Thankful

Ever been disappointed with a gift? Of course, most of us have had the joy of anticipation fade into a lukewarm smile as we’ve unwrapped a gift to discover a pair of socks, a fruit […]

The Difficulty with Love

Love given is a powerful expression that can melt hearts, halt wars, and silence outcries. Genuine love is freely given with no expectation of return and no demand of performance. Jesus Christ is genuine love. […]

At What Cost Christianity

Don’t read this if you find following Jesus Christ boring, inconvenient, uncomfortable or offensive. Don’t read this if you believe that He was merely a historical figure or a figment of imagination. Read on at […]

What Picking Cucumbers Taught Me!

What Picking Cucumbers Taught Me! I remember picking cucumbers as a boy in the fields of the Pee Dee region of South Carolina in the summer. It was hot. The kind of hot where the […]

Work hard, rest well and worship God

    Working hard only guarantees you will become tired. It does not guarantee that you will be successful, attractive, more well-liked or even get what you were working for. I have found that we […]