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I have to start off by asking this question: would God be able to recognize you from any other person? Would God be able to say without a shadow of a doubt that you were one of his own? What is your commitment to Christianity? Would you ask someone to watch their...
I currently work as an accountant and spend most of my week looking at spreadsheets and crunching numbers. Like most American men today, I am disengaged at work and would rather do something else with my time. As I sit in my cubicle and look back 25 years, I wonder...
Being rooted in love (Eph 3:17), we can't thrive without deep roots (Mt 13:21), but what happens when we discover roots to things in our lives that we don't want to grow anymore? After living in our house for almost a year, my wife decided it was time to evict some of...
Webster defines the word application as; 1. the act of putting to a special use or purpose. Every day I read the bible. Every day I pray. But not every day I act like a Christian. Why? Because we forget to become doers of the word. The bible is very clear that if you...
Lamentations 3:40: "Let us examine and probe our ways, and let us return to the Lord." I don't know about you, but I am a pretty good liar when it comes to self-evaluation. It's kind of like looking in the mirror; I see the 18-year-old body I used to have and not the...
I’m tired, but who isn’t? I am, after all, a soccer dad. I own a man-van that is full of grass from various fields across North Carolina. My weekends are not my weekends. They were before my kids. Now I spend an inordinate amount of time on an uncomfortable lawn chair...
Life is full of problems. Life is consistently imperfect. Life is life. In spite of that, we still have so much to be thankful for today. The fact that we are alive is enough for us always to be thankful. Still, it is easy for us to look at our problems and what we...
Here's how to overcome suicidal thoughts and start healing. It usually starts with depression. Depression is an invisible wall that surrounds the heart, soul, and mind of the person suffering through it. It causes darkness, doubt, and despair. It can be caused by...
Have you ever thought about sexual sin and taking out the trash in the same sentence? Probably not. Each time I emptied the trash, there was a different experience. Sometimes the garbage smelled bad, the trash was hefty, the trash overflowed, or the trash leaked awful...
Scripture is very clear about those who live in the world and those who live for the world. We should be living biblically. But as a Christian, I struggle every day with separating myself from the world and not completely alienating myself. Because I still have the...
Do you know how to break free from shame? It's not easy. Later in this article, we'll detail 3 ways to break free from shame. First, I'll detail my experiences with shame. I remember it like it was yesterday. Sitting in second-period algebra class, during my freshman...
"Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth." — Proverbs 5:18 Hugh Hefner died of natural causes at the age of 91. The founder of Playboy magazine was the envy of men the world over. His home—Playboy Mansion—was the location of frequent...