We live in a time where good words seem to be more influential than good deeds, where what gets said is more celebrated than what gets done. Sadly, this earthly mentality has even leaked into the minds of Christians. We share Bible verses, quotes from pastors, and talk about what great things we learn about Jesus but then do not put them into action in our lives. Worse yet, we do not put them into action to benefit the lives of others. There are many who believe that Jesus’s

Some days, things don’t go our way at work. We lose a deal, we have a bad performance, we feel like things didn’t turn out as we had thought they would. How many of us check out for the day afterwards, discouraged by failure? This week we go back to the same passage as last week, Luke chapter 5. It says, “One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God. He saw at the water’s edge two boats, left the

One of the reasons politics inflicts such damage and division into our world is because of the importance we give it. It certainly can be important at times, but because of the fact that no sinner was ever saved by their political leanings, we know it is less important than our relationship with Jesus. For many of us, the impediment to diving deeper into relationship with Jesus isn’t that we doubt him as our savior, it is that we are just too tethered to what happens in this

Partisan squabbles always make up a considerable portion of national news, and the fact that they are ever-present tends to make them seem more important that they are. It’s not a bad thing by any stretch to be informed, or even concerned about what goes on in politics, but where we slip up is if our concern turns to obsession. When we see the world thru a lens of partisan politics, we over-simplify the forces of this world – we place power, affirmation, and expectant hope in

We all have goals and desires in life, as well as, unfortunately, biases. These things not only affect the way we act, they actually, first, affect the way we see. We are all guilty at times of seeing the world as we want to see it instead of how God created it. We are all guilty at times of seeing people through a biased lens instead of how God created them. We’re also guilty at times of not seeing what is right in front of us and instead, looking past it in favor of what we