Happy Friday Family, I was a youth pastor in a beautiful small South Georgia city at Evangel Church. One afternoon while out for on a run it dawned on me that God had saved me spirit, soul, and body. I had been given new life through faith in Jesus Christ. My sins were forgiven. I…Read more Hungering For God: 40 Days of Fasting and Prayer
Growing in Friendship with God
It's good news to me that God wants us to know Him, to find Him as we seek Him with all of our hearts! Once we do, then we make a commitment to love him always. One of my favorite verses in the Bible is "God saved you by his grace when you believed. And…Read more Growing in Friendship with God
God Friended Me
“The Son of Man, on the other hand, feasts and drinks, and you say, ‘He’s a glutton and a drunkard, and a friend of tax collectors and other sinners.” Luke 7:34 The friendship that God has given me in Christ is my most cherished friendship. More cherished that my love for my wife, (who happens…Read more God Friended Me
Friending God
Here is a quote from my grandsons' The Jesus Storybook Bible we gave them for Christmas. "This is how God will rescue the whole world [Jesus says]. My life will break and God's broken world will mend. My heart will tear apart—and your hearts will heal … I won't be with you long. You are…Read more Friending God
Complete The Year!
Families and friends will gather today to complete the year and ring in a new year. Many will finish the year in prayerful worship. Others will gather with their families around bowls of chili and play games. Still others will go to parties or watch a ball drop on television. Before you begin to celebrate…Read more Complete The Year!
Our Christmas
I love Christmas! Of course many people love the season of celebrating Christ's birth. Each year the Christmas season means more to me. When I think about the greatness of God's love for us to become a man, sinless in nature, compassionate and filled with love he bore our sins to the Cross. For the…Read more Our Christmas
This Time of the Year!
This time of the year is always so wonderful for me! It's Christmas! Special worship services, Christmas Eve, families and friends are getting together, parties, giving gifts, and in the middle of it all finding a quiet place by my fireplace early in the morning for quiet reflection and prayer. It's the time when I…Read more This Time of the Year!
