Stop making excuses for not stepping out in faith — Before a competitive race begins, the runners usually stretch or jump to prepare their bodies for the race and are often highly focused. Then the announcer starts with those famous words to get them all organized. He tells them to get “on their mark.” He pauses, then tells them to…

Let me explain — You would expect the above headline to come from an atheist, not a Pastor. Have I lost my mind? No, I think Jesus would say something similar but with an explanation. As Jesus was ministering to people and amassing a crowd, He reminded them that following Him around did not…

Please don’t fall for his deception — How frustrating it is to have your Facebook account hacked. Some dastardly person figures out our password and causes us incredible frustration. Worse, many people have had their identity stolen, which can cost a lot of time, money, and energy to get things back to normal. We can try to…

Even though none of us have all of the answers — “The line between delusion and what the rest of us believe may be blurrier than we think.” — Zoë Heller Is the earth flat? What happened at Area 51? Did we actually go to the moon? Was the election stolen? There are untold theories about many things for which we…

Everyone needs a filter between their brain and their mouth — “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” — Maurice Switzer You have experienced that awkward encounter when you responded too quickly, harshly, or carelessly to a situation in your life. Sometimes as the words…

But what if you are wrong? — Never in the history of mankind have there been more voices in our ears explaining to us what the right thing to do, say, and believe is, and how we should respond to popular ideas. Whether opinions are coming at us from the media, our friends, Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, or…

But you cannot buy them with money — Have you ever found the perfect app for your phone, but then you realized that it had the potential to be more perfect? More perfect? Is that even a thing? The app you downloaded and have been using that you thought was perfect notifies you that in-app purchases are available…

A question we all ponder — Life is short. Everyone will die. There is a heaven and a hell, and you will spend eternity in one of those two places. God has explained this throughout the Bible, and He has also implanted a conscious awareness of this truth into every human being. …

His grace is always sufficient — When you go into a jewelry store, the lighting is perfect, and when they present a diamond to you, they do so on a black velvet cloth. The backdrop is to reveal the glory of the diamond in its brilliance. In the same way, the problems that we go through…