Christ Jesus’ Battle in the Wilderness for Our Good (Part 1) 21 Mar 2020 Jesus' temptation has long been a subject of study. That the Son of God would be tempted at all is a fascinating detail of his earthly life. The account in…
Books A Review of “Loving Your Community” by Stephen Viars 16 Mar 202016 Mar 2020 Community outreach and theological depth are, sadly, not often combined into one church. More often than not a church emphasizes either strong doctrinal teaching or social ministry. Faith Church in…
Family Leadership in the Home is About Empowering Others 13 Mar 2020 I have written in many places about the Scriptural principle of male headship in the home. I have also written about the ways in which this principle is misunderstood and…
Family… The Purity of the Words of God in Psalm 12 21 Feb 2020 Perhaps you've had this experience: you know that the person talking to you is being dishonest, insincere, or manipulative but you are unable to prove it. Or perhaps you have…
Old Testament… The Equation of Psalm 63 3 Feb 2020 It often seems that when trouble hits our lives we do everything we can before we seek the Lord. We want relief, we want hope, we want a change in…
Church Spiritual Maturity Gives Latitude Not Judgment 14 Jan 2020 You are not spiritually mature if you are obsessed with the sins and failures of others. We often think that spiritual maturity means we have a low tolerance for anything…
Books Books I Read in 2019 31 Dec 2019 I stalled in my reading somewhere in the middle of the year. So, it was an off year in terms of completed books. Nonetheless, I did read some great works…
Anxiety Anxiety’s Terrible Companions 18 Dec 2019 Many of us know the common bedfellow of anxiety is depression. Where the one runs the other tends to tagalong. But anxiety actually has a number of companions. The Psalmist…
suffering The Value of Suffering in Sanctification (Part 4) 13 Dec 2019 How we live speaks more volumes to the people around us, then the words we say. Our lives are the testimony of our true, deeper beliefs. This is especially true…
Anxiety A Testimony of Overcoming Anxiety 5 Dec 2019 It is the joy of seeing transformed lives that first drew me into counseling. There is nothing like getting a front row seat to the transformative power of God's grace.…
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