We are getting closer to Christmas! If you know me very well, you know that I truly believe this is the most wonderful time of the year! If anybody should be making a big deal out of Christmas, it is born again Christians! This special season should mean something more to us than buying gifts and wearing ugly sweaters. The thing that has been on my heart lately more than anything is sharing the gift of Jesus this year. At church we have been talking about our “Second Chance S

I think that this is one of the most confusing topics in Christianity. It shouldn’t be, but we have allowed carnal Christians and the unsaved world to pin us into submission on this topic. Anytime a well-meaning Christian points out sin, all that the “sinner” has to do is scream “You’re judging me!” and the well-meaning Christian is forced into silence. I have to give these people credit, they have very successfully convinced Christians of something their Bible doesn’t say. T

I come from a large family, 8 kids to be exact. I often think about the wonderful memories I have of growing up in the country. My siblings and I would play outside most of the time. We’d spend the winter sledding down the hill behind our house and the summer exploring the woods and all of the beauty that God’s creation had to offer. Of course we’d sometimes have some disagreements but they were always short-lived. The thing I am most proud of though is that through thick and

Towards the end of every year I begin asking the Lord for a verse to stand on and use as my “theme verse” in the New Year. I can honestly say that the Holy Spirit always answers me and leads me to a verse. I don’t always understand the significance of the verse at first, but it’s guaranteed that at some point during that New Year I will find out why. This year the verse the Lord gave me is Proverbs 25:28 TLB: “A man without self-control is as defenseless as a city with broken