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

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.Joh...  Read More