When you pray, what is your primary objective? Is it to get something from God or is it to spend time with Him? If you utilize prayer simply as a way to give God a checklist and you never spend the time fellowshipping with Him, then you’ve missed out on the point of prayer. In…
Month: April 2019
Why Our Prayers Are Unanswered
Ever felt like your prayers were falling flat, never actually reaching God? If God is the good Father who knows how to give good gifts to His children (see Matt. 7:11), then why does it feel like He isn’t even listening sometimes? While we won’t ever see the full picture this side of heaven, we…
The Problem With Entertaining Sin
I may not think that I have an immediate problem just because I entertain a particular sin. The problem with letting that thing linger in my mind is that the more at home it feels, the more of its friends that the sin will invite. The enemy goes from being cast out to being welcomed…
The Father’s Love
To illustrate the point further, Jesus told them this story: “A man had two sons. The younger son told his father, ‘I want my share of your estate now before you die.’ So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons. “A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and…
The Gracious Employer
“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard. He agreed to pay the normal daily wage and sent them out to work. “At nine o’clock in the morning he was passing through the marketplace and saw some people standing around doing nothing….
Who IS My Neighbor?
One day an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus by asking him this question: “Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus replied, “What does the law of Moses say? How do you read it?” The man answered, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all…
A Word On Patience
We don’t need much prompting to recall times when we have needed an extra dose of patience! These passages remind us that patience can still be a good thing. With constant shifts in attitudes and experiences, here is some truth that endures the test of time: Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and…
Anger’s Slippery Slope
“You have heard that our ancestors were told, ‘You must not murder. If you commit murder, you are subject to judgment.’ But I say, if you are even angry with someone, you are subject to judgment! If you call someone an idiot, you are in danger of being brought before the court. And if you…
The Talents
“‘So take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has ten bags. For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be…
Children in the Marketplace
“To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others: “‘We played the pipe for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’”-Jesus After Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and…
Food for Thought 