Tony Campolo once said to his congregation:
“I have three things I’d like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don’t give a $#!%. What’s worse is that you’re more upset with the fact that I said $#!% than [...]

Hi Church!!
Last Sunday was the unofficial beginning of summer and is historically one of the least well attended Sunday church services. As such, I know a lot of folks weren’t there…like most of my family . You have to admit the beach and the mountains and all the totally neat stuff we [...]

The church’s youth were having a yard sale at a vacant gas station in town to help raise money for their mission trip to Jamaica and I, among others, were going dropping off items for the sale all week in preparation for it.
I drove there one evening for what I thought would be a short [...]

“Do everything without complaining or arguing” (Phil 2:14, NIV)
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me, is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.
It is [...]

Byron never felt like he belonged. His family attended a near by church where I served in Henderson, NC and I came to know his family well. He was pleasant enough but he looked a bit different and sometimes seemed unusual to his eight-year-old classmates. There was a reason. Byron was born with Downs [...]

I was shocked, confused, bewildered
As I entered Heaven’s door,
Not by the beauty of it all,
Nor the lights or its decor.
But it was the folks in Heaven
Who made me sputter and gasp–
The thieves, the liars, the sinners,
The alcoholics and the trash.
There stood the kid from seventh grade
Who swiped my lunch money twice.
Next to him was my [...]

I want you to think of a mistake you most recently made. A sin. A time your messed up. I now invite you to stop readind this for a moment, and say a prayer asking God for forgiveness and the strength to turn from that sin and run towards Him (repentence).
Did you [...]

A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package; what food might it contain? He was aghast to discover that it was a mousetrap! Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning, “There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse [...]

Do you know why God chose you out of all the billions of people on this planet? God did not choose you to make you famous. God did not choose you to make you rich. God did not choose you to make all your problems go away. God choose you to make you more like [...]

“Is God still talking to us today?” was the question I got the other day. I shared that there is no doubt that He is still talking to us, but perhaps the better question would be, “Are we listening”
I remember hearing a story once (and forgive me for not being able to cite it) [...]