In the last post, I asked the question, What experiences shaped your personal understanding of how a person is meant to follow Jesus throughout life? We then looked at powerful little illustration (see below) to explain how we can better understand the gospel and its implications for our daily lives. There are three “dimensions,” if you…
A few Saturday’s ago I felt a prompting. It wasn’t an audible voice, but something inside me said I needed to pray for a particular guy within our church family. Can you relate to feeling a prompt in your spirit — either to pray for someone, speak up at a certain moment, or just respond…
“Now I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters, what God in his kindness has done through the churches in Macedonia. They are being tested by many troubles, and they are very poor. But they are also filled with abundant joy, which has overflowed in rich generosity.” 2 Corinthians 8:1, 2 The northern part…
“God created us to love people and use things, but materialists love things and use people.” Randy Alcorn Consider these statistics: 15% of Christ’s recorded words deal with money 66% of his parables deal with riches and possessions In the gospels, 1 in every 10 verses addresses a financial issue In the Bible as a…
“The Bible offers us three metaphors that teach us God’s view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is temporary assignment.” Rick Warren We all want things to be fair. Equality seems to be a fundamental drive of our human nature. When raising little ones, parents do their best to…
This is a class paper written by our grandson, J.J. McNown. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” ~John 3:16 The Bible is an altogether unique book. It is actually a collection of 66 books written over 1,400…