Category: Christian Living

Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triump in Christ, and through us diffuses the frangrance of His knowledge in every place. – 2 Corinthians 2:14 NKJV. The NIV puts 2 Corinthians 2:14 as: But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us...

In Galatians 5:22-23 we are told, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance….” The NIV translates gentleness as kindness. Kindness can be a shocking thing when you are expecting the opposite. Before I was a pastor I was a parole officer. My job was to supervise people...

I grew up on a cotton farm and by the age of four or five I was ready to help out with some of the farming duties. The day arrived when I was to go to the field and “chop” cotton along with my mother and sister. Now I had heard...

In Proverbs 22:6 the Bible says, “Train up a child in the way he should go….” And in Ephesians 4:29 we are told not to let any unwholesome language come out of our mouths but only what is useful to edify or build up those who are listening. In Hebrews 10:24 we are told to, “…provoke one another...

Today I was run over by a truck. Not really, it just felt like it!! I thought I was looking after the interests of our church as a pastor should. I thought that what I had wanted was what would be in the best interest of those affected the...

The Bible in 1 Samuel 2:3 tells us, “…for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.” Our lives are filled with actions. Believing upon Jesus as our Savior is an action. Following Jesus in baptism is an action. Praying is an action, and so is reading...

The Psalmist says in Psalm 90:2, “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth, and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God.” There is a God and according to the Psalmist our days are numbered before we meet Him face to face....

God’s definition of a happy person: “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth...

James 1:12, “Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.” Most of the time when we think of the crowns that we will receive from God for faithfulness...