STORY TEASER
David’s annual New Year’s Day tradition started out with a bang when… A champagne bottle cork flew across the room hitting David in the forehead He tumbled down a flight of stairs to his friend’s recreation room His daughter announced she was pregnant You will learn...
OVERCOME ADVERSITY
Do your best and God will take care of the rest. Agree or disagree? Watch this video and share your thoughts. http://goo.gl/7Bi6n
GUN CONTROL
Sandy Hook is still fresh and our Constitution still gives us the right to bear arms. Share your thoughts here. “A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any...
Conversational Question
Happy New Year! I hope you have enjoyed The Gift is You Blog and the messages on hope and encouragement from my heart. I pray that one of the 118 posts to date has touched YOUR heart in some way. My question today is... what does HOPE mean to you? Is it faith? Is it...
Bible Verse
If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love (John 15:10).
Quote
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. ~ Calvin Coolidge
Conversational Question
We’ve all heard that “Jesus is the reason for the season.” When I hear that statement, I think, “He was born for us so He could die for us”. I also think that without Jesus, we wouldn’t have Easter, marriage, baptism, The Church, and the list goes on. What meaning...
Bible Verse
Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God. Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God (2 Corinthians 3:4–5).
Quote
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Christmas 2012 … and We’re Asking: WHY?
It’s Christmastime! It’s that special time of year when peace and love seem just a little bit closer … the time we all honor the traditions that are near and dear to us … the time we anticipate our children excitedly running downstairs to see what Santa brought … the...
Food for Thought
I've been learning about humility lately. It's not the easiest of lessons to learn, and the classroom is full of interesting experiences; however, I feel as though it is truly one of the most valuable things to understand. Our world seems to fuel success with pride....
Bible Verse
This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of this strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness,...
Conversational Question
When we say “amen” at the end of a prayer, what does it mean?
Conversational Question
Is romantic love – the Valentine’s Day kind – Biblical? On what do you base your response?
Bible Verse
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the...
Food for Thought
Pearl Harbor Day, according to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, “a date which will live in infamy,” marked the beginning of the United States’ involvement in World War II and is the day that we remember that on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941 America's naval base in...
Food for Thought
Don’t allow comforts to hinder others from coming to Christ. Put others first and make it a priority to lead them to Jesus! Jack Graham, PowerPoint Ministries, Daily Word, Thursday May 31, 2012 Check out Jack Graham’s Daily Word here:...
Bible Verse
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up (Galatians 6:9).