This Little Light of Mine I remember as a child singing the old gospel song, “This Little Light of Mine.” The chorus goes, This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine, This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine, This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine, Let it […]

Look For God’s New Way After King Jeroboam set up the false altar in Bethel, God called a prophet to go and cry out against the abomination. After the prophecy was confirmed through miraculous signs Jeroboam invited the man of God back for something to eat. The prophet refused saying, “It was commanded me by […]

It’s Time To Take Out The Trash When faced with crisis, the first thing we usually do is the last thing we really should do. But this wasn’t the case with King Hezekiah. The first thing Hezekiah did wasn’t to look at how he could secure his borders or throw off the Assyrian threat. Instead […]

Why Church? The Bible says we’ve made for relationships. The Lord said in the beginning that man being alone wasn’t a good thing, Genesis 2:18. This is the heart of the Great Commandment that says we’re to love the Lord our God with the whole of our being, which is then worked out by loving […]

Deep Roots, New Beginnings Before you can grow up, you must grow down. This has always been at the heart of God’s plan for His people. This truth is present in God’s creation. Before any plant life reaches the surface and bears fruit it must receive the necessary nutrients. For this to happen it sends […]

Our Gracious Loving Shepherd Throughout the Bible we’re introduced to God as our Great and Good Shepherd, but there’s no passage more precious than Isaiah’s when he speak of the Lord not only in His title as our Good and Great Shepherd, but rather what He does and what He provides for us. “He will […]

Land of No Mores Heaven is the place where the human heart longs to be, because it’s the land of no mores. The Apostle Paul said, “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. […]

Have You Truly Forgiven Have you truly forgiven, or are you just using the words to make yourself feel better? Years ago someone asked me a question that is just as pertinent today as it was 2000 years ago. They asked, “Dennis, how can you forgive me for what I have done?” I said, “How […]

Learn To Judge Righteously To judge righteously we need to stop promoting our own religious agendas over God’s. This was exactly the point Jesus was trying to make when He said to the religious leaders, “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.” (John 7:24 NKJV) What the religious leaders were doing […]

What’s It To You? After His resurrection Jesus appeared to the disciples by the Sea of Galilee where Peter asked about John. Jesus replied, “‘If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.’ Because of this, the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple […]