As Mother’s Day approaches I thought I would share a few traits I have learned from three remarkable mothers in my life--my mom, my wife (mother of our five children) and my grown daughter, mother of three. It's my hope to "honor moms" as God commands (Exodus 20:12).First, all these women believe Jesus is most important. All three live lives surrendered to Him. My mom made sure to read us the Bibl...

DEALING WITH GRIEFAll of us face loss at one time or another. We might lose a job, a marriage or even a child to death. Grief is the process or journey through which we heal and find wholeness again. The poster boy for grief in the Scripture is the man named Job. In a brief period of time he lost his children to death, wealth, health and the respect of his community. Most believed he must have don...

One of the most common struggles people have is worry. So many play the “what if” game? What if I don’t have enough money for retirement? What If I never meet the right person to marry? What if my spouse leaves me? What if I am messing up my kids? What if my kids get hooked on drugs? The list goes on and on. So often worry feels like weeds in the garden, you pull one out and another pops up. It fe...

Today millions will gather in churches across the country for Easter. Some will go for Easter Egg hunts or other special events. Hopefully most will go to remember the premier miracle of Jesus. Yes, He opened the eyes of the blind, gave the lame the ability to walk and fed thousands miraculously but the greatest sign of the ministry of Jesus is the Resurrection. No one else has ever predicted thei...

Across the country millions will celebrate Good Friday, the somber reminder of the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. What are the messages of this sobering day?One, the first message of Good Friday is the seriousness of sin. Sin is brutally deadly. The Bible says that the wages of sin is death. There can be many faces of this death. If you steal from your company, the wages of that sin could be ...