Mission advances only through sacrifice. Think about that for a minute. What mission ever existed and was successful without sacrifice?...

Road signs are important for many reasons. Signs not only point people into the right direction toward their destination, but they are...

Back in the day there was a phrase my friends and I used to say that was to give strength and believability to a comment. Whenever we...

One of the realities that should guard the hearts of those who know Christ is His steadfast love for His Bride - the church. What is...

There is a hymn that speaks to the essence of what is true for all of us as we long to live and love the Lord with the whole of our...

It might seem a bit odd to ascribe clarity to the one I called crafty. However, what I mean by the devil being clear is not that he is...

The devil is a created being who is crafty. In his craftiness his aim was and remain to deceive the people of God in such a way that we...

The devil is a created being. That is what we considered previously to show that his actions are never outside of the sovereign will of...

Part of the difficulty in Christian living is the worthy place we give to the devil. We grant to him power that is false and abilities in...

We have been walking through what I have termed Garden Theology. At the heart of this phrase is the truth that everything we understand...

Pastor's all over the country wish we could fit all of the sermon preparation into our Sunday messages. Sometimes it works out and...

It is said that everything rises or falls on leadership. Whether in church, business, or politics this truth has been played out in every...

Creation is what it is because it reflects the design of God and the presence of God. This is not a pantheistic way of viewing creation...

Genesis 3 is a crucial turning point in the opening narrative of the Bible. Everything about life, existence, man, woman, leadership,...

As the lead pastor of The Bridge Fellowship, I am often seeking to move the church to a place of increasing gospel-centered creativity. I...

Today I turn 51 years old. In the grand scheme of things it is just another year but for me, the years become increasingly important and...

It is an awesome wonder that God would create us in His own image and call us to rule as His representatives upon the earth. That is an...

The Bible is one large inclusion. An inclusio is a Biblical literary device that brackets information around similar thoughts or and...

The word image is commonly defined as follows: likeness, resemblance; representation; sculpture, portrait, sketch, etc. These words...

The idea of God is beyond the realm of the human imagination. Sure, men imagine God to be who they deem him to be, but this god ends up...