May, 2015

• 28 May

  Get Out of That Rut: How to Change Your Brain

  

  “I have my ruts, and I like them!” That great honesty came from a child, but it expresses a truth that holds many of us captive.  “Rut thinking” is a nasty captor because it usually blinds the captive to the bondage.  The walls of the rut grow higher each year, ...

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• 28 May

  The Pleasure of Sin

  

  There really is pleasure in sin—for a time. It lures us in, making promises it knows it will never keep. It thrives on rationalization and justification. It tells us we will be the one to get by with it.  Sin would not be an issue if it came to us ...

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• 27 May

  Where to Find Real Happiness

  

  I don’t think there is anything more unappealing to me than ungratefulness.  There’s an image that has been floating around Facebook for some time–it’s a skeleton of a child, much too malnourished to live long, his mother giving him a drop, a single drop, of water.  None of us have it that bad. More gumption ...

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• 27 May

  How God Brings Good from Trials

  

  God orders our steps and uses all the circumstances of our lives to mold us into the image of His Son.  How does this work?  Because God knows everything we will do in our lives, since He sees our lives, not as a one-dimensional picture, but as a panoramic picture ...

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• 27 May

  Our Hope: Enoch Was Taken

  

  “And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.” Genesis 5:24  Enoch is a very interesting hero of the faith.  He is fascinating, actually, yet we really know very little about him personally.  Let’s talk about what we do know about him. Enoch’s father was Jared, a descendant ...

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• 27 May

  Enough Excuses: How God Taught Moses to Step Up

  

  Do you ever feel that the task to which God has called you is more than you can do? Moses did. When God first spoke to him out of the burning bush and commanded him to lead His people out of Egypt, Moses came up with a myriad of excuses: ...

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• 27 May

  Wife of “American Sniper,” Tara Kyle Shares Her Testimony

  

  I would like to share this post as homage to American veterans and their spouses, and the sacrifices that they and their families make for our freedom.  You may be familiar with the box office hit, American Sniper, or the book that was released before the movie debut. If you ...

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• 26 May

  What Would Jesus Do About Food Waste?

  

  Every day in America, we waste enough food to fill the Rose Bowl, a 90,000-seat football stadium. Thirty-six pounds of food per person is wasted each month at the retail and consumer levels. In one year, we wasted nearly 34 million tons of food, which would fill the Empire State ...

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• 26 May

  “War Room” – The Latest Film from the Kendrick Brothers

  

  From the producers of Flywheel, Facing the Giants, Fireproof and Courageous, comes Alex and Stephen Kendrick’s fifth film: War Room. The movie, scheduled to release in theaters on August 28, is a commanding drama about the importance and necessity of prayer. The movie follows the lives of a middle-class couple, ...

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• 26 May

  Being a Brine of Kindness to a Sour Pickle

  

  Everyone who has held a job understands that it takes all personalities to accomplish the task at hand. However, in the mix of the personal environment there always seems to be a sour pickle. One who in spite of the teamwork effort, has to engage in a negative manner finding ...

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