If You Want to be Depressed DO This: A Recipe for Depression - CLASS

If You Want to be Depressed DO This: A Recipe for Depression
I am not making light of depression. I know quite a few people who walk around very very depressed. I'm not a medical doctor please understand I am not telling you to drop your meds. Depression is not respecter of person and can come and go. There are circumstances in a person's life that are painful, or shocking, and people can react to that by going into a deep dark pit of depression.

Get Up And Get Going - VIGNETTE

Get Up And Get Going 
This vignette is not about being tired. This vignette is about having a calling on your life and finding excuses for not getting up and going.

Do Something Different With Our Lives - POTPOURRI

Do Something Different With Our Lives
God gets our attention and alerts us to do something different with our lives

Why Am I Living And For What Am I Dying? - POTPOURRI

Why Am I Living And For What Am I Dying?
The Question is often asked "Why Am I Living?" but perhaps a more appropriate question would be "For What Am I Dying?"

Gotcha: The Three Idols of Mankind - CLASS

Gotcha: The Three Idols of Mankind
Every human being who lives today or in the past has been under the power of Satan or the power of Christ. How does the evil one get us? Pleasure, Profit, Honor. 

I've Got a Phone and I've Got a Pen - VIGNETTE

I've Got a Phone and I've Got a Pen
This is not a political vignette, it is a spiritual application of what we've recently heard.

Three Men Who Are My Friends - VIGNETTE

Three Men Who Are My Friends

These three friends can teach us a lot:

He that loves me
He that hates me
He who is indifferent to me:

He who loves me teaches me tenderness
He who loves me teaches me to be cautious
He who loves me teaches me to be self-reliant

Don't Raise Christian Brats - CLASS

Don't Raise Christian Brats

• God set up the family because the family is the glue that holds society together.
• The only thing you can take to heaven is your children.
• We have a manual straight from the Lord in how to raise children.
• The Bible is full of examples of parenting.
• What is the difference between disciple and punishment?
• The dangers of Ritalin.
• How to Biblically train your child.

Lean Soul Living - VIGNETTE

Lean Soul Living
We've all been there. We know what it feels like to have our to have our soul lean, shallow, and weak.

Talitha Kum - CLASS

Talitha Kum (Mark 5)
Today we are thinking about how we comfort ourselves and others Biblically about death.

Typhoid Mary, The Sequel - CLASS

Typhoid Mary, The Sequel
For what did Christ die? For what kind of sins? All of them. You can go to any prison system and those inside will compare themselves to other prisoners and they can always find someone worse them themselves. Out of our hearts comes sin. These things defile a man. We all have a sin nature. Where did you get yours?

Kohath, Korah, and the Kohathites - CLASS

Kohath, Korah, and the Kohathites
God had a purpose for each of the 12 tribes. Levi was one of the 12 tribes and Kohath was the son of Levi. The Kohathites had a special privilege and responsibility to carry the Holy objects. Kohath had a son named Korah. Remember Korah's rebellion? This is a story about God's incredible mercy.

A Widow's Mite and a Widow's Might - VIGNETTE

A Widow's Mite and a Widow's Might
Our text is Mark 12.  What was the widow's heart? She was trusting her God to supply all her needs. Widows, in Biblical days, couldn't work.   She was a dependent, trusting woman.  Jesus makes a wonderful example to all us.

My Theme for 2014 - POTPOURRI:

My Theme for 2014
For a number of years now, I have had a specific theme for the New Year.  Usually, in October I begin praying about two questions:  (1) Lord, what do I need to learn about you this coming year?  (2) And what do I need to learn about myself?

Bible Reading - POTPOURRI

Bible Reading:
A step by step approach to reading the Word of God.

Forward This - VIGNETTE

Forward This
I get a lot of things forwarded to me that are heart stopping or that I rejoice in as I read them. I have learned you can't always trust what someone has sent me in email. Not everything that comes across a person's email is valid.  With God's Word from cover to cover, you can forward any part of it and know that it is true, as long as we let God speak for Himself.

Here Comes Santa Claus - CLASS

Here Comes Santa Claus
Kids love Christmas and why not?  But it's not 'Santa Claus' who knows if I've been bad or good. Please listen to this audio file with  your earphones or have the children go to the other room and may your Christmas be blessed because of  Christ who came.

What About Thanksgiving? - VIGNETTE

What About Thanksgiving?
As Thanksgiving Day approaches I am amazed at what I see and hear. It is quite concerning because Thanksgiving is being bypassed for Christmas. I haven't heard of many people speak of Thanksgiving unless they are talking about what they are going to eat, who is coming to Thanksgiving, and what they are going to buy afterward.

What's the Difference Between Giving Up and Letting Go? - CLASS

What's the Difference Between Giving Up and Letting Go?
Some of us have issues, something in our life that we must let go or give up. It can be real or it can be abstract losses. Where ever you are, we all have something in our lives ... what is the difference? That's what we're talking about today.

Why Me? The Woman With An Alabaster Jar - VIGNETTE

Why Me? The Woman With An Alabaster Jar
In Luke 7 we find that Jesus can heal and that He has the power over death. Later in the chapter we see His ministry to sinners, but near the end of this chapter we discover that the women with the alabaster jar is Jesus' greatest miracle of all.