TRIMMING THE HEM OF OUR FAITH

There are times when a prayer will fall from my lips that I know the Spirit, not my mind, has prayed through me. As I began to pray this morning, I prayed, “Lord, help me hem in the garment of my faith.” Like an unhemmed pair of pants that are too long and flop around...
BENT, BUT NOT BROKEN

BENT, BUT NOT BROKEN

I was walking through the cemetery in our town when I noticed a tree that was bent over. It was the victim of a recent windstorm. What was strange about the tree was that it was not uprooted or broken. It was still alive and growing. In the storm damage that took...

WHAT REALLY MATTERS

I remember when Jan and I drove through the modern city of Philippi, Greece. It was not the ancient city depicted in Scripture. I had to pause for a moment and remember it was a modern city to the people of the day when Paul wrote his letter to the Philippians. What...

RACE SHAPE

Our faith needs to be conditioned to get us in shape for the race set before us. An untrained faith will not be able to withstand what is coming.  I listened to an interview with a race car driver who said that to prepare for a race they needed to be in what is called...

STRENGTHENING OUR CORE

Every morning I do an exercise called “The Plank.” It works my body from head to toe. Its most important benefit is what it does to my core. To be strong at the core of our body affects the immediate areas of muscle and skeletal structure, but its most important...