Posts from August 2026

Sometimes the stress of family life, work, and ministry can cause us to feel like the walls are closing in. We don’t have to be experiencing extreme trauma to be discouraged. What do we do when problems seem overwhelming? How did the apostle Paul handle stress? 2 Corinthians 1:8-9 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to…

The New Testament is full of Jesus’ teachings, but who is Jesus? Is He the Messiah, man, prophet, or teacher? Is He the greatest conman of all time? Is He crazy but charismatic, or is He God? John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. If Jesus is God what does that mean…

Paul wrote to a group of Christians who had just gone through intense persecution, suffering, and pain. He shared these encouraging words. 2 Corinthians 7:11-13a 11 See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter. 12 So even though I wrote to you, it was neither…

Colossians 1:13-14 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Tim Ballard is a federal agent who tracked down and arrested pedophiles for many years. He had been so frustrated by the inability to stop child pornography because of the red tape that seemed to protect the pedophiles more than the children. The system was broken and…