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I Desire Mercy Not Sacrifice
Experiencing the mercy of God in our lives
Ready & Faithful
Looking to Jesus for help now and hope in the future
Why Suffering?
Help your church understand God's plan in pain
We might be used by God to produce fruit we will never see. Takes time to take a fruit tree from a sapling to a mature, fruit producing tree. Down South, a young man, walking along a dirt path, comes upon an old man bowed to the ground planting pecan trees in a field. He stops and asks the old ...read more
Scripture: John 15:16
Tags: Bearing Fruit, Everlasting, Fruit Of The Vine
Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ
During the Great Depression a good man lost his job, exhausted his savings, and forfeited his home. His grief was multiplied by the sudden death of his young wife. The only thing he had left was his faith. One day as he combed the neighborhood looking for work he stopped to watch as men did ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:12-15
Tags: Faith, Suffering, Pruning, Works Tested By Fire
A missionary sat on the patio watching a black ant crawl up a table leg until it reached some spilled sugar. After it ate some of the sugar it crawled back down the table leg. Soon two black ants crawled up the table leg to the sugar. They ate and left. Soon a steady stream of black ants moved ...read more
Scripture: Colossians 1:6
Tags: Evangelism, Growing, Fruit-Bearing
All our lives God works on us, chiseling away those parts of our life that hinder us from fitting into His eternal temple. Our Christian life is a work in progress. Jesus Christ is changing us from a useless stone to a useful one. Before Michelangelo created the masterpiece we know simply as ...read more
Scripture: 1 Peter 2:4-5
Tags: Sculpture, Living Stones, Living Stone, God Is Working
Lester Roloff told about visiting a friend in Massillon, Ohio who had a number of pigeons. During the visit his friend showed him one of the birds and said, “See this bird. She just flew 500 miles from St. Louis to Massillon non stop.” Roloff interrupted his host: Come on, non stop! How do you ...read more
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:23
Tags: Clean, Holiness, Sanctify
Holiness means we love what God loves and we hate what God hates. Some people are like the man who said to a preacher: “I’ve got religion.” “That’s wonderful! Are you going to lay aside all sin?” “Yes, indeed!” “Are you going to attend church?” “Yes, indeed!” Are you going to help the ...read more
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:7
Tags: Holiness, Business, True Religion
Two brothers were convicted of stealing sheep many years ago in England. In accordance with the punishment of those days, they were branded in the forehead with the letters “ST” for sheep thief. One brother, unable to bear the stigma, fled to a foreign country where he died full of bitterness and ...read more
Scripture: Ephesians 1:1
Tags: Holiness, Saint, Good Reputation
Many times you’ll have no clue what to do. But you still have to pretend you are in control. Like when your three-year old melts down at the grocery store. What do you do? You are wearing a "WWJD" bracelet and still you have no valid answer. You’ve read a ton of parenting books and although many ...read more
Scripture: Malachi 4:6
Tags: Parenting, Fatherhood, Dads
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
God’s word instructs us to be teachers to our children. For the past 5000 plus years, children would help with the family business. If they were carpenters, the children would help doing work that was appropriate for them. As they helped, they would become masters at the skill that they were being ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 22:6
Tags: Fatherhood, Teach Children, Dirty Shoes
I’ll never forget the day I became a dad. My wife and I had registered to adopt a child with our state’s Division of Youth and Family Services through BCFS. Then one day we got a call from them saying there was someone special they’d like us to meet. A baby still at the hospital was needing a ...read more
Scripture: Isaiah 43:4, Isaiah 43:1-7
Tags: Fatherhood, Dads
You’ll probably not get six continuous hours of good sleep ever again. And if you do, you’ll never admit it because it will make your wife mad for the broken-up sleep she got when she got up and took care of the teething child. Dads, there is nothing more comforting to your little one than to have ...read more
Tags: Fatherhood, Sleeplessness
Sometimes you want to run away to a land far, far away! But unless you are Peter Pan, flying to Never-land is hardly a good idea! You see, your presence is more important than you know. Feelings of inadequacy bombard every dad, so at times you may not think you’re a good father! You may even think ...read more
Tags: Father, Baseball, Family Relationships
FATHERHOOD TIPS 1.- Cherish your time with them. When we adopted our first child, we decided that it was outright important for the child to have a mom and a dad that were there for them. My wife quit her job and became a stay at home mother. She is amazing! And I also had to find a job that ...read more
Tags: Fatherhood, Cherish
Dr. B. adds, “Christ desired that his church would be the earthly community of oneness modeled after the eternal community of oneness. Jesus went on to declare that he had provided his followers with everything they needed to bring about this oneness. He prayed, “I have given them the glory that ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:12-27
Tags: Connection, Church Community, Christian Community
When my daughter Cynthia was a little girl, we lived in Odessa, TX. We made one of the pilgrimages that we did from time to time to see my wife, Rosemary’s family. Rosemary’s brother, Michael was in town at the time from the Navy. Now in West Texas, rain is a beautiful thing. We got one of ...read more
Scripture: John 12:1-10
Tags: Disciples, Aroma, Smell, Pleasant
Denomination: Baptist
In the Ice Age movies a squirrel is on a never ending quest for the acorn. He tries and he tries to get that acorn, and meets with a variety of misadventures along the way. He never succeeds in getting the acorn. In one of these movies, the squirrel has a "near death" experience, and finds himself ...read more
Scripture: Hebrews 11:13-16
Tags: Heaven, Alien, Better Life, Better Home, Temporary Home (view more) (view less)
A contest was held in England to find the best definition of a friend. Thousands of answers were received but the one that received the prize was this: “A friend is the one who comes in when the world has gone out.” Can we ...read more
Scripture: John 15:13-15
Tags: Friend In Jesus, Faithful Friend, Jesus' Friends
At the beginning of the school year during recess I was on the playground looking for some of my friends. I couldn’t find them. I had two boys come up to me and asked, “Do you need a friend? We want to be your friends?” I said, “No.” Was I mean? No, I just didn’t know them. Through time, we ...read more
Tags: Jesus' Friends, Friendship With God, Choosing Friends
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 17:17
Tags: Friends, Friend, Friendship, Faithful Friend
In the 1995 movie ’The Usual Suspects’ the character Verbal utters these thoughtful words ’ The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the ...read more
Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-20, Luke 4:1-13
Tags: Satan Is Real, Reality Of Satan, Devil's Deception, Beware Of The Devil
Denomination: Anglican