The Settled Life While reading the story of Abraham’s journey from the land of Ur to Canaan, it records that for a while he, his family and relatives settled in the town of Haran. “They went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as […]

Giving God All Glory You’ve done something great for God’s kingdom. That’s great. Now shut up and let God get the glory. When you glory in what God has done, then it’s vain glory. How common is it for Christians to judge their own religious character or works through the opinions of others. But instead […]

Getting Our Priorities Straight A priority is anything that has first importance in our lives, and as such we live according to what we consider to be the most important thing, or our priorities. This was what was presented to Hannah by her husband Elkanah. Unable to have children she would go around mourning all […]

Living Life in the Stretch God knows who we are, and while we’re still the same in some ways, God wants to change us in His ways, or as the Bible says, “From glory to glory,” and into the image of His Son, Jesus Christ. God want’s to stretch us. He wants to stretch our […]

Plant Your Life in Christ In this devotional mini-series we’ve been looking at the steps in getting oneself above the bar in the track and field sport of pole-vaulting, and how these steps will help us live our lives above the bar and in accordance with God’s will. To recap, the first thing we must […]

Blessed Are The Flexible Over the next several days, I’d like to share with you some pointers for our Christian lives from the track and field sport of pole-vaulting, and how we can live our lives over the bar, rather than under it. The first step is to make sure you’re flexible. In pole vaulting, […]

Religion Isn’t The Way In the book of Judges there’s a story of Micah, a young man who built a shrine in his house with idols, making an ephod and hiring a young Levite as his priest. He said, “Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, since I have a Levite […]

On You Mark, Get Set, Go It all starts with Jesus. The writer of Hebrews says we need to keep our focus on Jesus, because not only does our faith start with Him, but also it is perfected and completed in Him (Hebrews 12:2a). But it’s not only our faith; it’s everything, because He created […]

There Are No Accidents It’s not heritage that determines who we are, it’s who we are in the Lord. Jephthah was “a child of shame.” He was born to a prominent citizen, but not from his wife, but by another woman. And so ugly names were flung at him, and because of his mother he […]

Are We Ready? Most products we buy have an expiration date, and these dates are important to know, like when we’re buying milk, or better yet when we’re getting ready to drink it. When we buy a car we also know its expiration date. It’s when it quits running and the warranty runs out. Well […]