August, 2014

• 5 August

  Yellow Light

  

  I stood there staring.   My eyes locked onto it as I shut out everything and everyone else around me. The chill that surrounded it made me shiver, yet my palms grew sweaty. Thoughts floated around in my head as my heart pounded and my adrenaline soared due to the ...

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• 5 August

  Our Meddling God

  

  “You planted a lot, but you harvested little. You eat, but you’re never full. You drink, but you’re still thirsty. You wear clothing, but you never have enough to keep you warm. You spend money as fast as you earn it.” This is what the Lord of Armies says:  “Carefully ...

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• 5 August

  Are You Overwhelmed?  

  

    Is your life out of balance? What are you chasing after more? Time with God, money, people, or possessions? When you begin to experience stress, fatigue, and a feeling of being burdened, it’s time to pull back and reevaluate why.   Oftentimes, we take on too much that God ...

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• 5 August

  Do You Give Like God?

  

  Our God is a generous God motivated by His great love for His creation.  He makes available and lavishes on those who will accept it, great grace and mercies that are new every morning (Lamentations 3:22-23).  He offers salvation to us free of charge (Romans 3:24). He grants forgiveness simply ...

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• 4 August

  Visitor Information

  

  ‘The LORD said, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.” ‘ Genesis 12:1 (NIV) Abram did not know where he was going.  He did not know anything about the place God would lead him to.  He only knew he ...

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• 4 August

  The “Faith of a Child” Is Under Attack

  

  The “Faith of a Child” Is Under Attack By John Livingston Clark What do other people want your 5-year old child to believe about God? In the attempt to sway the hearts of young children, two stories in the news reveal that there are organizations trying to push the pendulum ...

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• 4 August

  I quit!

  

  “I quit! I guess I’ll never be able to tie my shoes. Guess I can’t go to kindergarten.” My son’s heart wrenching dramatic despair played like a broken record over and over in my mind. Why does he always quit before he begins? I just don’t get it! Trying to ...

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• 4 August

  Leave The Bucket Behind

  

  “If being baptized by water saves you, as some religions claim, then why are we not dumping buckets of “holy water” on people everywhere?” Being raised in a religious household with this exact idea, and having been baptized as a baby, the question caught me off guard and started to ...

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• 3 August

  Don’t Buy What They’re Selling

  

  Magazines…billboards…movies…T.V. commercials, they all seek to sell their version of beauty. Each avenue has an opinion on how we should look in order to be accepted. Psalm 139: 13-14 confirms that God created us from the womb, and we were fearfully and wonderfully made. Yet society—and its groupies, social media ...

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• 3 August

  Integrity Needed – Could You Be The One?

  

  We are fast-approaching that time of year again. The time when candidates fill our mailboxes and we get bombarded, over the airwaves, with ‘approved messages.’ Do you dread the upcoming political season and all the mudslinging that is sure to arrive with it? Do you believe that one day we will be able ...

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