If you are like me, you often allow your first impressions of someone to affect your second and third impressions of them.  This video is a great reminder of the foolishness of that.  Thank you God that Your first impression of me didn’t prevent You from letting me join Your family!
My brothers, as believers in [...]

I gave myself this short test this morning, and thought you might benefit from it as well.  Consider your answers to these two questions:

When was the last time you gave someone advice?
When was the last time you asked someone for advice?

If you are like me, it was very simple to answer the [...]

I had lunch with a friend last week who asked a very honest question: “Why Easter”?  The need for Jesus’ death is clear, but was it just as necessary for Him to be resurrected?  There are lots of theological answers to this question…here are a few:
The resurrection is God’s validation of Christ’s identity. It is [...]

Outflow: Outward focused living in a self-focused world.  It is easy to read a book like Outflow and think things like:

“I could never do it”.
“I don’t have the right personality to do it.”
“I don’t know how to do it.”
“Those are nice thoughts, but I don’t want to do it.”
Etc, etc, etc. [...]

As a kid, I’m sure I often complained that one of my buddies was a “copycat”.  He would do or say something just like I did, and he would do it over and over!  I should have realized that it was really a compliment.  He was copying me because he thought what I said [...]