Faith

James 1 tells us that the testing of our faith should be considered as joyful… not simply looking at our circumstances and being happy about them but knowing that: God tests the righteous (Psalm [...]

This post is titled “Parents vs Instagram” but really I’m not against Instagram or social media in general. I’m actually a big fan! (Although I’m not a fan of snapchat and some others…) I’m not [...]

The Word the Lord has given me for 2015 is REFOCUS. I’ve been meditating on that for almost a month, now I’m ready to say it “out loud. …REfocus… I wasn’t [...]

Our testimony is an ever-changing, growing journey. It is not simply the story of how we got saved. We are continually working out our salvation (Phil 2:12), continually going from glory to glory [...]

But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We [...]

At the last church leadership meeting, our Pastor said (my paraphrase) “Some of you may have come here from another church and took a break and now you are just waiting for permission [to [...]

I thought I’d go through my journal and messages I had written in the past and start blogging them. This message was for our youth group July 29, 2009. God is spirit, and those who worship [...]

For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one’s [...]

In Exodus 36, we see that God gave specific people skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in constructing the sanctuary. Moses called every craftsman who God gave skill, everyone whose [...]

Continuing on with the remainder of James chapter 1… you can find part 1 here. James 1 is talking about trials and testing of our faith. I will pick up where we left off at verse 13, 13 [...]