Help reach a $12,000 goal to encourage more seniors in the critical months ahead!

It’s no secret that many people use the summer months to rest and go on much-needed vacations. But the opposite is often true for seniors.  Many of them consider the summer months to be the toughest as family and friends go out of town – leaving them alone and feeling more isolated than ever. That’s […]

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Exposing the misconception of meekness

“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.” – Matthew 5:5 So often today, the Christian value of meekness is overlooked, and often times completely disregarded. Much of this attitude has come about as a result of Christians who misunderstand what meekness really is. On this subject, the great author A. W. Tozer wrote, […]

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How healthy is your soil?

“As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.” – Luke 8:15 The Magnolia is widely considered one of the most beautiful and fragrant trees of the South. Its large white blossoms often dot main streets and […]

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Becoming great by getting out of your puddle

“The LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.” – Genesis 12:1-2 You might be surprised to […]

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The power of loving your enemies

“But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.” – Luke 6:35 In his book, The Grace of Giving, Stephen Olford tells of […]

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God hears you!

“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.” – 1 John 5:14 A man was being pursued by a roaring, hungry lion. Feeling the beast’s hot breath on his neck and knowing his time was short, he prayed frantically as he ran, […]

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The greatest gift you could ever receive

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 6:23 On May 2, 1962, a dramatic advertisement appeared in the San Francisco examiner that said, I don’t want my husband to die in the gas chamber for a crime he did not commit. […]

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What’s your business?

“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” – Ephesians 2:10 Charles Dickens drives home a profound truth in a scene from his famous novel, A Christmas Carol. Confronted one night by the ghost of his crooked business partner – and warned […]

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How you can build up the body of Christ

“From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.” – Ephesians 4:16 There was a team of engineers who did an experiment in a wind tunnel to determine why geese fly in a “V” formation. In the experiment, […]

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The profound impact of human connection

“Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.” – Romans 12:10 There was a woman who always went to a certain post office in her town because the postal employees there were just so friendly. One year just before Christmas, she walked in to buy a book of stamps, and the […]

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