My greatest worship experiences haven't been in a large auditorium, a youth convention, or even a worship concert. It's not that I haven't had great worship sessions in those venues, but they just haven't been the best.  I can honestly say that my favorite and...

I hate the misconception that as a Christian I am somehow expected to be a pushover. I hate that as a Christ follower people think that I am kindly supposed to take whatever is dished out to me without any retaliation in the process. It is basically assumed that in...

 "The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”  “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman...

It's not my job to point out your flaws.  At one point I thought it was.  I thought it was my job to be someone else's conscience, to be their moral compass and their "guiding light". Boy. Was. I. Wrong. As youngsters and miniature evangelists, we are taught Matthew's...

In the past month or so I have truly seen the blessing that was placed in the midst of storms that I have experienced. I feel like I have been through a lot in the past year or so...graduating college, leading a middle school ministry, being released from my first...

"In everything we do, we show that we are true ministers of God. We patiently endure troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind. We have been beaten, been put in prison, faced angry mobs, worked to exhaustion, endured sleepless nights, and gone without...

"All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer."   Acts 2:42  By far the most challenging and difficult part of my life has been to keep my faith.  It has...

I have always prayed for God to transform my thoughts to allow Him to flow through me from my mind to my actions.  I plead for positive, hopeful and uplifting thoughts.  The prayers are always from my heart in deep sincerity to beg God to allow me to think as He...

Over the years, I have noticed the forward thinking Christian trend to describe Christianity as "a relationship" not "religion". While I have taken part in this trend and do firmly believe that this is a huge step for believers in Christ to begin to see themselves as...

I believe that Christians lose much of their power in the battle for the Kingdom of God here on Earth.  Why? Too often we say we Love God, but then we never say that we Hate Satan. It is fantastic to love God and proclaim that intense emotion.  However, when dealing...

A very wise woman once asked me the question, "what cross do you bear?"  At first I was taken back, not fully understanding what she was asking.  She explained that throughout her Christian Education, her professor would constantly ask each person what cross they had...

There are those days.  The days where we get a song stuck in our heads.  But it's not even a good song, or our favorite song; it's the song that we sincerely dislike, and yet somehow we can't stop the lyrics from repeating over and over and over again in our heads. ...

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 allowance of misery in our...

“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...

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 the Christian...

My greatest worship experiences haven't been in a large auditorium, a youth convention, or even a worship concert. It's not that I haven't had great worship sessions in those venues, but they just haven't been the best.  I can honestly say that my favorite and...

I hate the misconception that as a Christian I am somehow expected to be a pushover. I hate that as a Christ follower people think that I am kindly supposed to take whatever is dished out to me without any retaliation in the process. It is basically assumed that in...

 "The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”  “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman...

It's not my job to point out your flaws.  At one point I thought it was.  I thought it was my job to be someone else's conscience, to be their moral compass and their "guiding light". Boy. Was. I. Wrong. As youngsters and miniature evangelists, we are taught Matthew's...

In the past month or so I have truly seen the blessing that was placed in the midst of storms that I have experienced. I feel like I have been through a lot in the past year or so...graduating college, leading a middle school ministry, being released from my first...

"In everything we do, we show that we are true ministers of God. We patiently endure troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind. We have been beaten, been put in prison, faced angry mobs, worked to exhaustion, endured sleepless nights, and gone without...

"All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer."   Acts 2:42  By far the most challenging and difficult part of my life has been to keep my faith.  It has...

I have always prayed for God to transform my thoughts to allow Him to flow through me from my mind to my actions.  I plead for positive, hopeful and uplifting thoughts.  The prayers are always from my heart in deep sincerity to beg God to allow me to think as He...

Over the years, I have noticed the forward thinking Christian trend to describe Christianity as "a relationship" not "religion". While I have taken part in this trend and do firmly believe that this is a huge step for believers in Christ to begin to see themselves as...

I believe that Christians lose much of their power in the battle for the Kingdom of God here on Earth.  Why? Too often we say we Love God, but then we never say that we Hate Satan. It is fantastic to love God and proclaim that intense emotion.  However, when dealing...

A very wise woman once asked me the question, "what cross do you bear?"  At first I was taken back, not fully understanding what she was asking.  She explained that throughout her Christian Education, her professor would constantly ask each person what cross they had...

There are those days.  The days where we get a song stuck in our heads.  But it's not even a good song, or our favorite song; it's the song that we sincerely dislike, and yet somehow we can't stop the lyrics from repeating over and over and over again in our heads. ...

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 allowance of misery in our...

“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...

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 the Christian...