“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 […]

“It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.” (Ecclesiastes 5:3) January is not one of my favorite months. I lost my mother fifty-five years ago on January 9th. I was only seven years-old. My dad passed thirty-nine years ago on January 18th. The truth is January is not a great month for a lot of other Americans either. Ultimately, the excesses of Christmas catch up with all of us, especially those of us who “charged” our way into the hearts of […]

“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 […]

But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.” (Luke 15:20) Have you ever been angry with God? I have. In fact, the last two months have been the most difficult two months of my life. I confessed to my pastor that I wondered if God really cared about me. His silence made me question the truth of Deism, a belief that God just sits in heaven and lets life happen. […]