“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.” (Matthew 25:13) It was strange. The morning she died, I woke up with the eeriest feeling I’ve ever experienced in my life. I knew something was wrong even though it was over 14 hours before one of my high school friends called to let me know that an old friend of mine had lost her 5-year battle with cancer. I will never forget the deep sense of loss that I felt back when I heard […]

“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6 If I were to ask you, who said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand”, the vast majority of you would answer Abraham Lincoln, and you would be correct. In fact, those words came from a speech Lincoln made against slavery almost 148 years ago. What you may not realize is that Lincoln wasn’t the first person to utter those words. The thought actually came from Jesus who […]

“For he who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.” (1 Peter 3:10) When I was a child, my dad hired a housekeeper who would pay me to cuss her out. Can you believe it? It just tickled her to death to hear a child “cuss like a sailor”. I continued to cuss like a sailor all the way to adulthood. The truth is it became such a natural part of my lifestyle that I […]

“You cannot serve both God and Money.” (Luke 16:13) It’s income tax time – a season each year that sort of sneaks up on us in January as we begin to receive our W-2’s or 1099’s. The truth is we shouldn’t just take a financial accounting of our last year; we need to take a spiritual accounting, too. What did we do last year for the Lord with all that money and talent he gave us? We often think that God doesn’t care a lot about money. After […]