This weekend was so refreshing. We’ve been attending Central Presbyterian Church in Merced, CA, and this weekend we got to attend the church family retreat at Mount Hermon – SEE […]
Does your local church life look like a healthy family or a factionalized and failing corporation? The reason for my asking this question is not to stir up discontent and […]
Do you feel alone at times in the midst of so much good going on around you? I am totally an optimist, maybe to a fault sometimes. Merced and Twain […]
Imagine a community of siblings (in Christ) going from day to day with purposeful intent to show kindness. Kindness goes a long way in showing the intengrity of our message […]
Many believers are up early today to celebrate the Son of God, risen from the grave, having overcome death that we who trust in Him as Lord and Savior my […]
We speak with word pictures about virtues and values all the time. Here is one that comes straight from God’s Word. God gives us JOY that we can taste when […]
When we wrestle through acts of service for other believers and for the lost, we find more and more joy in giving of ourselves. I just started reading in Acts […]
My wife and I enjoyed watching the movie entitled God’s Not Dead last night. These explicitly Christ-oriented movies are strangly easy to critique, both for non-believers and believers. Why is […]
California, probaly more than anywhere in the US, has a culture of deep desire for being noticed, for one reason or another. As I worked out at the gym today, […]
Shame… I wrote about it the other day and a friend sent me a link to the following public source – WIKI ON SHAME. Another older perspective on the meaning […]
