Consider This

You are in class, you know?  Life is like being in class.  We have the opportunity to constantly be learning and we certainly have our periodic tests!  Put things in the right perspective, our creator – God’s, who created us with a mission in mind.  He didn’t gift us with life to just be the […]

Have you received a compliment lately?  Congratulations if you have!  My condolences if you haven’t.  Even if you have been edified lately, I will bet you would feel even better if those comments of appreciation came more often.  Don’t we all appreciate it when others compliment us and appreciate us and/or our efforts?  That “building

Growing up as a male in our American society positions us to take on unnecessary baggage.  Back in the 70’s the term “macho man” was something for men to aspire to but it created a great deal of pressure on a man to measure up to false “real” man attitudes.  I know because I incorporated

Hitching post vs guiding postWe regret past decisions or actions typically because we were selfish or stubborn or prideful. It was about me not about them. Or we did it without a consideration of God’s will or laws. Our pride or selfishness can cause us to dig a deeper hole for ourselves oftentimes making it

The Master of the House  –  I have prayed for some time now trying to better understand why there is continual erosion of Christians falling away from their faith and the church.  There are many experts providing various statistics and reasons behind it all, all of which is very frustrating to me.  If I am

What is sacred to you?  Would you consider your life sacred?  Would you consider the life of your spouse or child or parent and siblings sacred?  Are there other things sacred to you?  What or whom? Ok, we have considered for a moment the things of highest value to us.  Now, how about what is