Having a year filled with vision, purpose, and goals will make for a year filled with meaning and a sense of fulfillment. We must commit to living in these things every day. Many people will have a vision and even set good goals but will never follow through. Their enthusiasm for a life of purpose will last a couple of weeks but soon fade away. Research has shown that people keep the New Years Res...  Read More

How do we know if the new year will be a great year? It will be because we are living with purpose. We need to live with a vision from God, focusing on doing things significantly. God gives us the vision and what is necessary to accomplish that vision. He provides the resources. God is the Source that allows us to be successful in living with purpose. This does not mean that we don’t make plans.Pr...  Read More

We must approach life purposefully and make life all that it can be. We shouldn’t live with just any type of purpose but have a God-given purpose. We might have good ideas, but “God ideas” are always better. God ideas are what give us purpose and meaning in our lives. The best way to live a purposeful life in 2023 is to have the vision to accomplish for the year that God gives you. A God-given vis...  Read More

Jeremiah 29:4-13Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce.  Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do no...  Read More

For many people, Jeremiah 29:11 is one of their favorite verses. It’s a verse that reminds us that God’s intentions toward us are good. No matter what challenges we face or what lies ahead, this should encourage us in any situation, and for that reason alone, it is an important word for us to know.As often with scripture, there are other things we can learn from this verse. One of the most overloo...  Read More

The Power of Letting God Lead You in PrayerPraying is weakness leaning on omnipotence. —W.S. BowdAaron Boyd was way over his head. On a mission trip to Thailand, he and his band, Bluetree, played one night in The Climax Bar, deep in Pattaya’s red-light district. There, they rubbed shoulders with those stuck in the worst of the worst. There, he and his band discovered what can happen when someone “...  Read More

Prayer is an Intimate, Ongoing ConversationThere is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we can be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting all the demands of external affairs, but deep within, behind the scenes at a profounder level we may also be in prayer and adoration, song and worship and a gentle receptiveness to divine breathings. —Thomas ...  Read More

What Real Prayer Looks LikeWhen prayer has become secondary, or incidental, it has lost its power. Those who are conspicuously men of prayer are those who use prayer as they use food, or air, or light, or money. —M.E. AndrossIn Ephesians chapter 6, Paul challenges us “to pray in the spirit.” That brings up an interesting question: Is it actually possible to pray “in the flesh?” Could someone actua...  Read More

A Majorly Wrong Assumption About PrayerIf the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural. —Andrew MurrayIt really is hard to see the forest through the trees. We can get so entrenched with the details that we never really consider the big picture. That happens big time with prayer—which oftentimes come with some monstrous expectation...  Read More

Rethink Your PrayersIf you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word—prayer. —Charles SpurgeonPrayer… we hear that word a lot. It’s all over the place in the Bible. You hear it in passing conversations. It’s preached about in sermons galore. When you hear that word, what comes to mind? What do you feel?At the end of Ephesians 6, when Paul finishes ...  Read More

The winds of opposition to our faith are blowing and the battles rage across the globe. Our challenge to live as disciples and Christ followers is building almost by the day. Governments embrace platforms advocating abortion, same sex marriage, and trans-genderism, with those practices affirmed by their courts. Freedom of speech, religion and the right to assemble are threatened. We see global rio...  Read More

Jesus is coming you know. He is risen and will come for us one at a time or all at one time; but He is surely coming again. It will be different the next time. We first saw Him born in a humble manger and entering Jerusalem on a donkey. He didn’t resist the evil men who tortured Him and hung him on a cross.When He comes again, He will come as the victorious King of Kings and Lord of Lords astride ...  Read More