Category The Word

If I Were Homeless

Sometimes in ministry it helps me to serve others by putting myself in their place. This is by no means a complete and accurate picture, but if I imagine that if I were not saved and homeless I would ponder…

Warm Coats Warm Souls

Warm Coats Warm Souls: A Call to Help Our Neighbors Stay Warm this Fall and Winter As we welcome the crisp air and the familiar “Happy Fall, Y’all,” it’s also a reminder that the colder days are just around the…

On Bein’ and Seemin’

              There’s and old television commercial featuring a character who speaks to the camera while his amazing life is displayed to us[1]…               “I’m Stanley Johnson. I’ve got a great family. I’ve got a four-bedroom house in a great community.…

On the Way and the Truth

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Matthew 7:14 KJV             If you have ever traveled by plane, you have no doubt sat through the safety presentation where the emergency…

on Belonging

              I was preparing a message on the dignity of our jobs, no matter what they are. We all have a purpose and, no matter what it may be, we need to be the best we can be. We all…

On Giving…Thanks

1 Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.               Giving thanks is an important act in the life of a saved person. We are even commanded to do…

On Giving

              ‘Tis the season we all say.               We will soon have our annual day of thanksgiving that, for many, is nothing more than stuffing our birds and ourselves. It kicks off a busy month of deal-hunting, purchasing, baking, eating,…

Your Reasonable Service

              In Romans 12:1 we are told by Brother Paul: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.               Over the…