These images from the dream are haunting me. The lateness of the hour...

God's grace enables us to make good use of what His Spirit provides.

We often hear a lot in the church today about forgiveness. A great emphasis has been placed on it over the years. Often we hear the words...

An extensive study in the U.S. recently found that the most productive age in human life is between 60-70 years of age. The second most...

I don't like the destruction that comes from hurricanes, of coarse, but they have always been exciting to me even as a small child. When...

On several occasions recently, I prayed and received something from the Lord that didn't sit well with me when the thought first dropped...

We all know the fast food lines are long and service is crazy everywhere right now. Shipping is never on time, and everyone's nerves are...

Sometimes when people become very blessed (in the natural sense), they begin to lose the ability to default to contentment in smaller...

I hope this blesses you. I will be preaching on this more later in the month. In the Gospel of John, Jesus makes 7 "I Am" statements. ...

God is showing me over and over lately just how much He has done to prepare me for and protect me from... so many things. All along the...

I think this says it all; there is no need for a long blog post to go with it. Hate will always lash out at love, because love never...

I made a half-pot of coffee yesterday morning, went to work in the yard, and never even touched it. Seeing it now made me realize that...

Have you ever worked really hard on a meal that smelled great, looked so appetizing you couldn’t wait to eat it, and then, when you sat...

Zoe is graduating and we are so happy for her! She will be attending NC Wesleyan College in the fall, majoring in psychology. She has...

The caterpillar, not the butterfly, teaches us that growth doesn’t always look like a total transformation, but it is still progress!

Do you find yourself working on the same personality issue year after year? Don’t be discouraged. For one, you are still trying and that...

One of the many beautiful wonders of the North Carolina coast are the Banker Horses living along the barrier islands of the Outer Banks. ...

It was God's providence that brought Joseph out of his cell to use the gift God gave Joseph to make him second to Pharaoh in the land of...

Too many people end up frustrated and exhausted from the stress of trying to please God through work that isn’t really necessary. From...

Self Pity has to be one of the most successful tricks the enemy uses to defeat God's children. I don't particularly know why, but there...

Acts 16:29-34 “Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. And he brought them out and said,...

On this day, November 15th, in 1917, Oswald Chambers died of a ruptured appendix. The month before, in October, Oswald had traveled to...

Psalms 103:12 "He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west." When I read this verse and recall that this was...

Take some time to slow down to pay attention to details a little longer, to soak in the moments we generally pass through unaware. Take...

Today was the perfect day for us to go to the beach. About halfway through the day the tide began to go out and left us with a huge open spa

The strength of the flesh is disappointing, but the strength of the soul is the Lord's hand. Never allow the enemy of your soul to make...

Life will throw you back and forth like a little boat out in deep waters during a storm. Back and forth means everything from really...

There are many great tools for good ministry. If you visit a Christian bookstore you'll find book after book written by pastors and...

(original article 3/9/12 - Updated in 12/16) In order to study scripture it helps to know how to approach scripture. The Bible is...

No prophet or messenger from God ever came to God's people saying, "Hey, you're doing a great job, keep that up." No, be careful that the...

"A good man will obtain favor from the LORD, But He will condemn a man who devises evil." Proverbs 12:2 Jesus tells us to pray for those...

In Matthew Chapter 16 we see two stories back to back that reveal much about the way Christians can act and it isn’t always how Christ...

About service this morning.... my heart is still so tender over it... I mean tender. My husband and I were just talking about it have...

“Ye must be born again.” - John 3:7 Jesus said, "And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the...

Prayer is done in man's time. Answer to prayer is done in God's time. You cannot "pray enough" to finally make God answer you. God is not...

You know what (among many many other things) I love about the Lord? That He allows me to reject Him if I choose to do so. This freewill...

We had a nearly horrific experience today. Zoe took her guinea pig outside this afternoon and became distracted somehow. She forgot he...

I am convinced that it is not the Word of God who need to become relevant in this world, but this world is in great need of becoming...

As a woman, one of the best decisions I ever made was not to return the phone calls. You simply do not have to continue to make the same...

"Today's sacrifice may be tomorrow's stoning. One day, with Jesus, it was "Hosanna"; a little afterwards, "Crucify Him, Crucify Him." And...

You can have everything in the world to be happy about and still feel lonely inside. The one thing you do not have is what you...

"Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially...

So I am making hot chocolate in the kitchen and my husband and I are talking while he clears up the dishes so I can then cook.. {that's...

One of the kick backs for walking on the narrow path is that you will consistently experience biting from both sides of the road, the...

Have you ever struggled and finally said to the Lord, "Lord, why again?" or wonder, "Did I fail this test before?" Have you wondered if...

What frightens me most about Christianity today is the growing belief amongst us that we can be IN Christ and 'of the world' at the same...

Humility is such a lost virtue in the world today. It is even lost within a portion of the church as a whole. It's almost as if people...

Romans 12:15 ~ "Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep." There is only One who can see the whole picture; the...

The sins we struggle with today are really no different than the sins Israel struggled with so often in Scripture. The biggest of them...

The Lord tells us in Scripture that wide is the way to destruction and narrow is the way to the kingdom of heaven. Most go through the...