This Sunday ended twelve weeks of scripture memorization for many young people in our church. Every year the church offers all of our elementary through high school students the opportunity to earn scholarship money for summer camp or youth retreats by memorizing scripture. As a hearer I am allowed to give only three prompts…

  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? Romans 8:35   I don’t feel like there has been enough tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger, or sword in my life to tempt me to separate from God. But on…

  Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11     Many of the commands in the Bible have to do with how we should act toward other Christians. I call them the “one another” verses. We are to love one another (1 John 4:7), admonish…

    Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world. Philippians 2:14-15     Some meetings I go to are productive and some just seem like…

  We should know shouldn’t we? We repeat over and over that God is the same yesterday, today and forever. So, why are we surprised when He is? I was thinking about the empty tomb today. The guards who were assigned to protect it didn’t know they were trying to keep the living God from…

  “Tuesday before Easter — Jesus reasoned with the unreasonable on the Temple Mount. Judas took the cash. Jesus returned to the Garden…….preparing His heart, mind and Spirit for what He knew was coming Friday….. (Thank you, Lord)” These are the words of my brother, Steve Faulkner, on his facebook status. I read them and…