Love Your Church (Pt. II)

Love Your Church (Pt. II)

Acts 27:31 reads, “Unless [you] stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”   Every church has problems – and the people who cause them. It has always been so. Consider the Corinthian church. Some members got drunk during communion, and others...
Love Your Church (Pt. II)

Love Your Church

Ephesians 5:25 reads, “Christ…loved the church and gave Himself for her.”   Before you criticize your church, remember “Christ…loved the church and gave Himself for her.” He hasn’t given up on His church, so don’t you...
Love Your Church (Pt. II)

It’s Time to Move On

Hebrews 6:1 reads, “Let us go on…and become mature in our understanding.”   Is what worked in the past not working for you now? Maybe it’s a job you’ve outgrown, or a relationship you need to reexamine, or a method you need to change....
Love Your Church (Pt. II)

Today, Act With Compassion

Matthew 9:36 reads, “He was moved with compassion for them.”   The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance defines “compassion” as “being moved in one’s bowels” (the bowels were thought to be the seat of love and pity). It...
Love Your Church (Pt. II)

S.O.S. Prayers

Proverbs 46:1-2 reads, “God is…always ready to help in times of trouble. And so, we won’t be afraid!”   One day a woman was driving through the countryside when she saw a tornado approaching, so she hid behind her car and watched as it...
Love Your Church (Pt. II)

Life Is What You Make It

Proverbs 15:15 reads, “For the happy heart, life is a continual feast.”   The story’s told of a wise old man. Every day he and his granddaughter would sit outside his gas station in rocking chairs, waiting to greet tourists as they passed through...