This Sunday, I will be sharing about how to get your prayers answered. I am excited about this sermon! But I want to get you started thinking about this subject today. Let’s begin thinking about praying. Most of us would admit that we pray less than we could and less than we know we should. I think one of our greatest needs is to grow in our prayer experience. How about you—do you think there is r...  Read More

Let’s think about small words. It occurs to me that small words can be powerful, even life changing. That is true for better or worse! The words are said, “I do” and a couple is committed for life. The word “guilty” is spoken and a person is sentenced by a judge to a life in prison. The word “yes” is given to Jesus in a prayer and that person’s destiny is determined for all eternity. So small word...  Read More

Today I want us to think about Real Worship. I am of the opinion that not everyone who attends worship actually recognizes what is real worship. So I begin by asking: What is Real Worship?Well first, worship is not nothing! (Excuse the double negative). It is something! You can’t be doing just anything and call it worshipping. Worship is not dozing, or dreaming, or working, or playing, or TV watch...  Read More

“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going” (Hebrews 11:8).Author F.B Meyer, in one of my favorite devotional books, Streams In The Desert, comments on this passage. I want to share his words with you—Abraham “did not know where he was going”—it simply was enough for him to know he went ...  Read More

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding…” (Proverbs 3:5-6).Several years ago a friend of mine, who is a capable pilot, explained to me the instrument panel in the cockpit of his private plane. He showed me the compass which indicates direction, the altimeter that measures the height of an aircraft above the ground, the altitude indicator which is a display sho...  Read More

Is there hope for life after death? The message of Easter is “There is hope!” Evangelist Billy Graham wrote, “The New Testament is the textbook of hope.” Here’s why: It is because of the resurrection found therein. In the words of Peter, “(God has given us) a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Peter 1:3). The greatest question in the Old Testament is, “If a man ...  Read More