I encourage you to pick up a copy of My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers for your personal study. Around since 1935 but updated in 1992, this devotional constantly challenges me with either new teaching or rethinking of long held beliefs. I have been mulling...

James 1:5 (NLT) If you need wisdom--if you want to know what God wants you to do--ask him, and he will gladly tell you. He will not resent your asking. God is very specific in his instructions to us. However, I am the one that blows it by fretting and trying to figure...

Go with the flow, don’t make waves, and just let it go, no big deal – sound familiar? Maybe you have even said or thought it yourself occasionally. It is easier to follow the crowd to make a problem disappear than to take the lonely hard position. However, character...

Did I mention that moving is exhausting!? After a particularly grueling effort of packing, loading and driving to LA, arriving at 1 AM, the last thing I wanted to do was get in the car and drive another 9 hours to Arizona. But after dawdling as long as we could at my...

One thing often leads to another when you are doing a google search on the Internet. I was looking for a particular quote on the subject of "character" and in the process found many more and it started me thinking. The one I was looking for is, "One test of character...

We are living in dangerous times.  9/11 brought to the attention of Americans how vulnerable we are against terrorists.  Now I turn on the TV and see pictures of the devastation in the Middle East.  The age-old disputes in that region have erupted in fighting,...