For the next few weeks, we are going to talk about change.  We will be looking at it from a more individual level instead of a corporate level.  To introduce this topic, let’s ask a few questions. For those who are around 60 years old, what have you seen as the biggest changes in your […]

Years ago, while pastoring a church in Illinois, I offered my help with a local pig farmer.  I can tell you, that the smell of a pig barn is awful.  But by the end of the day, the barn didn’t smell as badly.  So after a long day, I was walking into the house when […]

As we enter this week, Passover is upon us.  Many of the world will go on without recognition of what the importance of this week.  In essence, they will pass over Passover. This week over 2000 years ago would have been like many Passovers previously.  The spotless lamb would be selected.  The celebration of the […]

We continue to look at the strongholds of the enemy that keeps us distanced from God. The first is the Attitude of Presumption.  Presumption is that which we take as truth until the evidence proves otherwise.  Just as our own legal system has the presumption of innocence, where persons are assumed innocent but must be […]

As we looked at the aspect of God’s Word in our prayer life, we need to look at different aspects of what scripture reveals.  It leads us to answer important questions. Who is God? As we live our life, the question is, “Who is God in our lives?”  Are we putting God as the important, or […]

So we have been talking about our faith in God’s Word and how that faith will shape our prayer life.  And as we are pushed and pulled in our daily lives, the enemy will start to push us into anger and frustration.  So we have to ask ourselves what do we do when we don’t […]

As we I recently went to a local prayer retreat where I was able to share with many other people the power of prayer.  At this event we were told a story of a man who went to India to help with a Brethren missionary pastor, Pastor Kumar.  On a weeknight prayer meeting, the electricity […]

As we continue to look at prayer, we are going to look at what we pray for and how answered Z(or unanswered) prayer fits into our lives and faith.  We can look at the passage of when both James and Peter were prisoners destined to be executed.  It is safe to say that people were […]

You don’t have to look very far before you find some scholar, somewhere, who has written, spoken of, or is providing evidence against the gospel account of Jesus’ life.  They try very hard to disprove the even existence of Jesus.  But if we look at the details of what the Bible says, and the specifics […]

We continue to look at the Lord’s Prayer, we see how Jesus answers the question on how we should pray.  And his answer wasn’t deeply theological, but practical in representing the relationship between us and the Father.  Last week we looked at and how forgiveness operates in our lives. The last phrase is, “and lead […]