When It’s Simply Me and You – My “Audience of One”

Life is like this when all’s boiled down. When the fancy frills of life, the transitory things, are all stripped away, it’s just me and him. That’s the way of eternity, now and to come!

Finding the Fun in Spirituality

The path of the spiritual life should leave us lighter than we were before and not weigh us down. Spirituality should help us to understand and access the divine purpose behind the universe and our lives. From that understanding comes peace, and from that peace comes laughter.

Finding True Rest in a Busy World

In today’s society, we often mistake avoidance for rest. We engage in “relaxing activities” such as television, computers, video games, etc. But all of these things cause us to avoid the experience of having a quiet mind and keep us from discovering what our soul, or God, might want to tell us if we gave ourselves a chance to truly rest and reflect.

Five Ways Short Term Missions Can Help Teens Find Purpose

The teen years are a time for learning what life is really about and finding purpose and direction for the years to come. But it is also a time full of questions. Is obtaining the latest gadget or following American Idol really where life is at? Many teens find the affluence of American life too small a challenge. “What else is out there that I can sink my teeth into,” teens wonder.

Six Aids to Effective Short Term Missions Planning

Short term missions has contributed significantly to the spiritual growth of its participants. But suppose you are the one who has to plan for it? The logistics can be daunting. Fortunately there is help for planning short term and summer missions.

God Does Not Want to See People Humiliated

God does not wish to see anyone humiliated. That is why Jesus teaches people to be humble. He does it by saying, “Humble yourself”. That is not a common popular everyday teaching – “Humble yourself”. Never pray – “Make me humble”. Just do it – humble yourself.

Learning From People Who Are Great Examples

If you’ve never had a mentor or someone to look up to, you’re probably missing a lot and I would advise you to start searching for someone who is a great example and can provide you with the ability to have a better life. These people can be located at work, on the Internet, within your family and even at your place of worship. They’re usually not hard to find and once you find one, you need to start acting like a sponge and your going to start absorbing the water of wisdom.

Psalm 114 – Testimony of Presence & Deliverance

Universally a hymn, this psalm is quite unlike the vast majority of psalms which speak about personal or communal lament, grief, joy, thanksgiving and praise. But it is incredibly fluent and graphically resplendent in situating for today’s reader the glorious works of the LORD God in history.

The Will of God Will Never Place You Where the Grace of God Cannot Keep You – A Lesson For Leaders!

That was such a close thing in Corinth. It happened in the life of a leader; in the life of one of the greatest missionaries and pioneers the Church of Jesus Christ has ever seen.

Complete In Him – Humility

Humility has different meaning depending on who is defining the concept and from which angle is he/she looking at it. Humility has been defined as a prominent Christian grace or better still a state of mind well pleasing to God. Humility is said to preserves the soul from tranquility and makes us plant under trials.

Negative Emotions Are Vitally Important!

Negativity; what does it really mean to you? How did you arrive at your particular definition of negativity? Did someone else establish the perimeter or were you able to decide for yourself how and in what measure negativity affects you?

Do All You Possibly Can to Make Wise Investments Whenever You Can – There Are Rewards and Dividends

Can you try to imagine what it must have been like to have a teacher like Paul, that man who was Saul of Tarsus, teaching you for around a year and a half? When a much loved and favourite Professor retired at New College, Edinburgh, Scotland, the following year’s students were really quite disappointed. Having had the privilege of sitting under the authoritative and comprehensive teaching of James S. Stewart for two years, I can understand how these other men felt.