1. Free coffee. Thanks for reading :)Just kidding! While I love free coffee as much as the next guy, there are so many great benefits to attending church every Sunday and seeing your “church family.” You get to fulfill your weekly social obligation! Good job, now back to the couch to watch football. Going to church also means showing how efficient you are at corralling your kids and getting them i...  Read More

I’m not sure what your life looked like growing up, but I grew up in a family that was “firmly planted” in the local church. If you haven’t heard that term before it basically means we were at church A LOT. This is by no means bragging, but if there was an opportunity to set up chairs, we did it. Needed help in the nursery? We did it. Even if someone needed to clean toilets, we were on it. If the ...  Read More

To me, one of the most fascinating stories in all of scripture is the story of Paul and Silas in Acts 16. Having been chained and imprisoned for sharing the truth of Jesus, I would expect them to wallow in at least a moment of self-pity. If it were me, I would have spent the majority of my day grumbling with God about how I ended up here on His behalf. But if you know their story, you know their r...  Read More

In the Bible, some stories just make sense. The plot, characters, and settings all seem to flow together. It’s easy to understand and read. Sometimes this is not the case at all. Some stories seem like riddles that need five entry codes and a key. To the followers of Jesus, some of these so-called riddle stories were called parables.A parable is a short fictitious story that illustrates a moral at...  Read More

I have always loved reading. This passion has been with me since I was little. Each summer, my mom would take me and my sister to the library each month and we would each get three to four books. I would fly through my books. My sister, on the other hand, would maybe make it through one. Literature has blessed me more than enough.God uses literature in miraculous ways. One of the biggest forms of ...  Read More

John Wesley was one time quoted as saying, “…in the essentials, we have unity. In non-essentials, we have liberty. In all our beliefs, we show charity.” I think he was right. In the non-essentials of the faith such as the mode of baptism or your position on end times, we can have liberty and freedom to read the Bible and come to our own conclusion. As believers in Christ, on all our beliefs, let’s...  Read More