This past Sunday I preached a message on one of THE MINISTRIES WE PRACTICE TOGETHER in the sermon We Do Discipleship. As you know, discipleship is important! Here is why—Discipleship is the discipline required to accomplish Christian living. God’s powerful river of blessing flows through the channel of discipleship. We are thus empowered to live the Christian experience only through a daily commit...  Read More

“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us whatever we ask we know that we have what we asked of him” (1 John 5:14-15).These verses instruct us to pray always “according to his will.” Everything rides on this. Jesus taught us to pray, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.” We have no right to expect...  Read More

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