Soaring in the Storm Most animals and birds run or fly away and hide from an oncoming storm, all that is, except the Eagle. They relish the storm. They fly towards the storm, because it’s in the storm that they are able to soar to great heights, far above the storm itself. This is what […]

Created to Fly “Like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them on its pinions. The Lord alone led him.” (Deuteronomy 32:11-12a) God created us to fly, to mount upon wings of eagles. The problem is that we’re way too comfortable, […]

Wooing To The Wilderness The wilderness is not a place any of us want to go. It’s a place where nobody else is, and there’s nobody’s around to help. It’s a place where if it could go wrong, it will. It’s a place of pain and suffering. It’s the place where we think God is […]

Our Next Generation God has tasked us to raise up our children in His ways, to make the church strong, and to be a shining beacon to this next generation. “Nevertheless, for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and by making […]

Decision Time I use to love watching “The Wide World of Sports.” What always got my attention was the opening when it illustrated the words, “And the agony of defeat” with a ski jumper crashing on the ski ramp. What I never knew is that he chose to fall rather than finish the jump. And […]

The Joy of Confession Sin causes misery, and sin is anything that falls short of God’s holy and righteous standards, or the Law. Our problem is that it is impossible for anyone to keep the Law of God and live, and that’s because we’re all sinners by nature (Romans 3:23). But thanks to God, sin […]

It’s Not Over It is not over until God says it is over, and even then God’s grace and mercy may rule out over His justice. Nothing is a foregone conclusion until the final chapter has been written. Far too often we live defeated lives because we think it is too late because the doctor […]

Many Called Few Chosen The parable of the wedding feast is probably one of the more difficult parables to understand, as many people wonder, “How could someone get into heaven without the wedding garment of Christ.” But this parable isn’t talking specifically about the future wedding feast, but rather about who’s invited, “Many are called, […]

Keys of the Kingdom “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” (Matthew 16:19; 18:18) While some say this was only given to the Apostle Peter, and his successors for church […]

Wrong Actions Defeat Right Motives Doing wrong to make something right is just plain wrong. This reality is played out in the life of King Saul. The Philistines had gathered to wipe Israel off the map with an army that literally dwarfed Israel’s small, ill equipped rag tag army. In fact, those that followed Saul […]