This is not new. Voices that don’t agree with one another have been saying scary things since the snake told Eve that God was a liar. Those words created fear. Trusting them created death. Words create things.

Moments later just across town on a street called Straight, this follower of Jesus knocks on a door aware that his persecutor is on the other side.

If you want to understand the ultimate image of cross baring for you it is serving God in the manner in which He has called, you for the salvation of men. It will be all the things that scare you. It will be humbling! It will cause total dependence on God! It will break your heart!

But there is not greater purpose for your life and mine than to serve our fellow man and point them to Jesus. Come be a part of meeting people where they are and helping them find salvation. It will make your days!

Peace in storms, restoration from Jesus

Let’s not forget that the virus that is attaching itself to our world right now is part of a bigger issue. The root problem with our planet is sin. Our bodies function very well in this cesspool we call home. If you think that is an overstatement, estimates are that you breath in about 100 million...

I don’t particularly like searching. For one it means that I have likely lost something of value to me. This freaks me out, leaving me to be frantic about my search. It’s tax season and there is probably no more frantic search for me than the search for a missing document that the taxman might...

If fear is the beginning of wisdom, it only takes knowledge of the person that you fear to settle the matter. If the person is malicious then further protections must be put in place. If the person loves you, being connected to them tips the scales in your favor. This is true on playgrounds and in the grand dynamic of God and man.

Before John faced the blade of the executioner, Jesus gave him the assurance he needed. He let his own friends tell him what they had discovered personally about Jesus.

… all discoverable information — all observable data — comes from God and thus His word literally made all that is true, true.

In the embodiment of love, God came to the earth and did it quietly, as one of us, so we could learn to trust His motives.