Stress

(Source: USA Today; CyberPulse for Wrigley Healthcare’s Surpass; RoperASW for Walnut Acres) Nearly half of adults say that money issues are the top cause of stress in their daily lives:49%     Money22%     Family Responsibilities22%     Work Deadlines07%     Commuting What do adults eat when they’re stressed?47%     Anything they want42%     Warm foods37%     Desserts29%   […]

Biblical Headlines

If Biblical Headlines were written by today’s liberal media… On Red Sea crossing:WETLANDS TRAMPLED IN LABOR STRIKEPursuing Environmentalists Killed On David vs. Goliath:HATE CRIME KILLS BELOVED CHAMPIONPsychologist Questions Influence of Rock On Elijah on Mt. Carmel:FIRE SENDS RELIGIOUS RIGHT EXTREMIST INTO FRENZY400 Killed On the birth of Christ:HOTELS FULL, ANIMALS LEFT HOMELESSAnimal Rights Activists Enraged […]

Volume 08, Issue 17

by Michael Catt On October 12, 2008, I found myself sitting on the platform of the old Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia. Sitting beside me was my friend and “co-pastor” Daniel Simmons, senior pastor of Mt. Zion. Daniel and I have worked together now for a number of years to try to build […]

Signature Sins

Turning Our Wayward Hearts – Michael Mangis. Formatio. “Michael Mangis reflects on the ways we manage our behavior to hide our sin and ignore the true poverty of our hearts. Exploring common forms of sin and then discovering how our own temperament, culture, family and gender affect the way those sins manifest themselves in our […]

Just Courage

God’s Great Expedition for the Restless Christian – Gary Haugen. IVP Books. “Gary Haugen says, ‘Here is one choice that our Father wants us to understand as Christians–and I believe it is the choice of our age. Do we want to be brave or safe? Gently, lovingly, our heavenly Father wants us to know that […]

Are You Ready to Jump?

Many people have had the horrifying nightmare of freefalling through the air after falling from a building or cliff. On June 7, 2008, Sloan Carafello lived it as a reality. The 29 year old Schenectady, New York resident boarded a plane at the Duanesburg Airport simply as an observer. His plans were to take photographs […]

Write a Letter!

Handwritten letters are a thing of the past. Email and text messaging are taking over. Think of the implications. We have books of letters from famous people lining library shelves today. Will there be books of emails? I doubt it. My parents wrote letters during World War II. They both saved their letters, and a […]

F Is for Fullness (Part 2)

Overflowing Tears “Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears!” wrote the prophet Jeremiah (9:1). “Let my eyes overflow with tears day and night” (14:!7). Strange prayers! But Jeremiah loved hsi people and faithfully ministered to them and wept over them forty years, but they would not […]

It’s Your Family (Part 1)

(From the Family Focus Series) by Michael Catt Joshua 24:14ff I. Six Declining Trends in the Family:A. Diversity     “The American Family does not exist. Rather, we are creating many American families of diverse style and shapes. In unprecedented numbers, our families are unalike…” -Newsweek     – Cohabitation     – Gay and lesbian “families”     […]

"Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks; and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks." - Phillips Brooks

Truth

"If we cannot go away for a vacation, we can take an "inside vacation" and find grace to help in time of need. God gives more rest than time will allow!" - Vance Havner

Rest

“It is easier to serve God without a VISION, easier to work for God without a CALL, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. But if once you receive a commission from Jesus Christ, the memory of what God wants will always come like a goad; and you will no longer be able to work for Him on the common sense basis.” - Oswald Chambers

God’s Will

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