Category Archives: Faith

"Don’t let the errors of evil people lead you down the wrong path and make you lose your balance." (2 Peter 3:17, CEV) One of the events in the summer Olympics is the pentathlon. It is composed of five events: pistol shooting, fencing, horseback riding, running, and swimming. The pentathlons’ goal is to succeed inContinue reading “Don’t Lose Your Balance”

  “Love means living the way God commanded us to live. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is this: Live a life of love.” (2 John 1:6, NCV) Life is all about love. Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love.Continue reading “Living God’s Way”

Relax: How you define life determines your destiny. The way you view life is your description of how life works and what you expect from it.  It influences your life more than you realize and determines your expectations, values, relationships, goals, and priorities. Read: "What is your life?" (James 4:14b, NIV) Reflect: To fulfill theContinue reading “A Life View”

Like all pastors, I am dedicated to equipping you as a disciple of Christ.  To help you learn more of him and become more life him so that you can be used by him.  To further that goal, I will be altering my blog to include not only helpful information but a consistent plan forContinue reading “15 Minutes with God”

Thank you for your patience these last two weeks.  Marcia and I were gone on family business and personal travel.  Visited our nation’s capital to renew the source of our national pride.  A great place to visit but you wouldn’t want to live there. Now back to words that change your life: CHURCH a bodyContinue reading “I’m Back”

I will be in PA for a while with Marcia’s mother, so try a blog or two when near a computer.  Thanks for your prayers. Michael

CHOICE the result of exercising the best option that which is approved in preference to others biblical: the decision that determines the paths of life personal: the power you are  granted to determine your life "Choose this day whom you will follow."  Joshua 24:15  MKJV In his Philippian letter, the apostle Paul uses an intimateContinue reading “Destiny is a Choice”

"A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones."  Proverbs 12:4 You May Not Know: Historians and psychologists agree that the greatest single factor that has lead to success and greatness is not intelligence, talent or even beauty.  It was character! Greek literature and philosophyContinue reading “Glory That Lasts”

char-ac-ter the good qualities that are esteemed and respected in a person the attributes that make a person valuable to society biblical: the fruit of hardship approached in faith personal: what God etches in your life through suffering "Not only this but we also exult in our tribulations, know that tribulation brings about perseverance; andContinue reading “The Price of Glory”

"The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God nor indeed can be."  Romans 8:7 NKJV As I said yesterday, we are in a fight for our spiritual lives.  That broken part of man robs us of everything from peace to prosperity.  All our culture is againstContinue reading “Living above the Lesser Self”