desperate.

People wonder all the time why they experience the “lows” in life.  We wonder why God would allow  us to have an awful job that we dread going to everyday or why we don’t even have a job, or why life is just plain horrid.  But maybe God’s...

pray like jabez.

“There was a man named Jabez who was more honorable than any of his brothers. His mother named him Jabez because his birth had been so painful. He was the one who prayed to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and expand my territory! Please be with me in...

like a rockstar.

Pastor Steven Furtick of Elevation Church in North Carolina once said, “Everybody wants to be a rockstar, but nobody wants to learn the chords.” This meaning, we all want the glory, the fame and the success without actually doing anything.  Pertaining to...

pursuit.

“Our generation promotes a dangerous concept that encourages people to “have faith”.  In this abstract doctrine, faith itself is the pursuit.  It matters little what the faith is based on-it is the act of believing that is important-but this teaching...

let us just be transparent.

Please let me be transparent for the moment, or rather, let yourself be transparent for the moment. How often do we feel (as Christ followers) that we have to always be happy?  That we always have to smile and see the positive side of life?  It’s a heavily...

purpose.

Scripture says, “I will bless you…and you will be a blessing.”  ~Genesis 12:2 I often think about our purpose in life. Some think of it as just random chance; that an explosion created living matter and it somehow evolved into humans… Others...