I often ponder Proverbs 3:5, where God tells us to trust in Him with all of our hearts and to not lean on our own understanding, and I often marvel at just how easy it is to get those two seemingly simple commands so horribly wrong. Lean not on your own understanding. Wow, don’t we [...]

Matthew 19:1-12 1When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan. 2Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.  3Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife [...]

I had a conversation yesterday with my buddy whose wife was killed last year, and we were discussing the day he celebrated what would have been their 8th wedding anniversary.  This was approximately 3.5 months after she was killed, and he spread some of her ashes in the Atlantic Ocean to commemorate the occasion.  It [...]

When Christ stretched His arms out on the cross and paid the ultimate price for the world, He extended the grace of God to us in such a way that anything and everything we ever needed became complete. His grace is truly sufficient for us.

“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” (Galatians 2:20-21)

I encourage you to spend today and tomorrow meditating on the following truths from God’s Word: “God is love.” (1 John 4:8, 16) “But seek first His Kindgom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” (Matthew 6:33) “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” (Galatians 5:1) [...]

Why is marriage so tough? Where does it all begin? Where do we get our view of love? How does it all get so distorted? Where do we find our only source of true love?

Today, we are going to begin to dissect our Case Study #1, Natalie.  In this post, I am going to introduce one thought that I want you all to ponder over the weekend. Before I get into that though, if you haven’t read Natalie’s entire story, please CLICK HERE in order to go to the [...]

Last week, I presented the foundational stories of two different people in my post, “Case Studies, The Background”.  If you haven’t read that post, or don’t remember it, please click the title and go back and read it now.  We will be looking further into the life of Natalie today, so focus on her story. [...]

Obedience means a lot of different things to people. We all have our own truths implanted in our hearts, and almost all of these are variations of God’s absolute truth. But, the reality is that we will more often than not live out of whatever we have come to believe as truth.