MOVING FORWARD … LOOKING BACKWARD
I guess I was about 19 years old when I had my very first “fender-bender.” I had just gotten a roast beef sandwich at the Arbys drive-through and was waiting to merge on to the highway as I sat behind another car. I looked over my shoulder and there were no cars...
DON’T LOSE YOUR FRAGRANCE
My wife clipped a bloom from our Magnolia tree and put it on the kitchen counter. When I saw it there on the counter, I got up close to take a whiff. Wow! What an awesome fragrance it had. A few days later, I passed by the bloom on the counter and noticed that it had...
TWO KINDS OF POTENTIAL
There are two kinds of potential everyone has that goes unseen … 1.) UN-REALIZED Potential. 2.) UN-UTILIZED potential. A baby crawls across a cold, hard floor. He is at the age where he could begin to walk, yet continues to crawl. The potential is there, but is it...
A SONG OF HEAVEN
I woke up one morning singing a song inside my head that I learned in a dream from the night before. When I awoke from my dream at 2:30am, I immediately went to record the song on my iPhone so I wouldn't forget it. The neat thing about the song I learned was that this...
BELIEVERS AND DOUBTERS (A Bible Study)
All through Jesus’ life and ministry he had people who believed in Him and supported Him, and also people who doubted him and mocked Him. I went through the gospels one time to mark the places where it was recorded where one group of people believed in Him while...
MAN UP!
One of my favorite Bible verses for men is found in the book of Job. Near the end of Job's trials, after all of his friends had tried to "comfort" him and counsel him, God finally showed up on the scene in a whirlwind (a tornado!) In Job 38:3, God said to Job, "Now...
KNOCK IT OFF!
I introduced a new game to my elementary kids at church one night. Each kid was given a large paper cup that they were supposed to balance on top of their head. The objective of the game was to try to be the last person remaining with a cup still on their head when...
GOD CAME DOWN TO US!
I love it when the light comes on in a child’s mind and heart. I was teaching my elementary kids at church from Acts 14, explaining how God had entrusted Paul and Barnabas to share His message with the world, specifically to the people of Lystra. While in Lystra, Paul...
JUST BREATHE
God took a handful of dirt and fashioned it into His image and likeness. He called His creation “MAN.” But man wasn’t alive yet. He wasn’t alive until God BREATHED into his nostrils the breath of life. When Satan came to the Garden of Eden, he manifested himself in...