Warren Wiersbe is a great Christian Author and writes a lot about our Christian character. I recently read this quote from him: ”We’re prone to want God to change our circumstances, but He wants to change our character.” There is nothing greater that I have found being in ministry, then…
Read moreI don’t really like to think about hell, but I was forced to think about it this last week, whether I wanted to or not. In one of my college classes, we had to read the literary works of Dante’s “The Inferno”. If you are not familiar with this reading,…
Read moreIn the mid 1960’s an epic film was produced called “The Greatest Story Ever Told.” It was a retelling of the Biblical account about Jesus of Nazareth from the Nativity through the Ascension. Of course, God’s Story began long before the nativity and continues still today. We read the Bible…
Read moreHere in Texas we are still awaiting the arrival of the first cold front. We long for the day when the wind blows in from the north, dropping the temperature and sweeping away the heat and dust of summer. We dream of pulling warm sweaters and cozy quilts out of…
Read moreI’ve been focusing on the wrong things lately. My gaze has been on the “trials” in my life, rather than on Jesus and what He wants to do in and through me. James begins his letter to “the twelve tribes” with this admonition: Count it all joy, my brethren, when…
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