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Our first year starting a Trail Life ministry. It has been a year of fun, growth, an learning how to best mentor these young men. We have camped, hiked, fort builds, assembled a catapult for an Easter event, cleaned up a park, fire dept your, and much more. It has been tough to start up but...

DARKNESS INTO LIGHT After months what feels like the warming glow of a sunrise warming the bone-chilled body that has counted every second of the freezing night. Such a relief to feel the warmth and such a joy to relinquish the fight. Like a sojourner in an arid place, wondering and dying of...

When the Spirit wants you to write, you write no matter how late it is. Are you feeling burned out or seemingly have lost the first love of salvation? The loss of zeal, passion, joy, beauty, energy, and devotion? The church of Ephesus Revelation 2:1-7 had some good commendations but Christ...

An exile is a person without a home, a forceful exit to a place far from home, a person who still can remember and feel the word of home. We must never mistake the glimpse of home as home itself. It is only the image of what was lost or what we hope to gain. Over time the exile may abandon the...

The Children Of God 🖼️ Artwork by Dran Now and then I like looking at artwork that forces you to think or seems controversial. The image below hits home as a parent. Many of us do not have the ability to shelter our children and with every evil imaginable that comes across the news, you send...

Do our words carry the same power as God? Genesis 3:5-6 ESV 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was...

Proverbs 3:5–6 (ESV) 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. To trust even when you do not understand is such a battle that takes moment-by-moment surrender. The lessons from...

Psalm 119:133 New International Version 133 Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me. (image would not upload but was a picture of my windshield and a child's footprint) What you may not see in the picture are the footprints of a child. Why would a child have...

More broadly, lacking social connection can increase the risk for premature death as much as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day. (https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/connection/index.html#advisory) How many of you struggle with loneliness? Do you feel it is on the rise in our...

The Importance of How to Interpret a Biblical Text Defining the terms: Exegetical- an explanation or critical interpretation of a text Fallacy- Incorrectness of reasoning or belief; erroneousness. Lexical semantics- is the study of word meaning. Descriptively speaking, the main topics...

The good Shepherd will guide us through any storm as long as we are willing to listen to His guidance. Psalm 23 English Standard Version A Psalm of David. 23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. 3 He restores my...

My list of needed prayer: Encouragement Patience Wisdom Discernment Funding A harvest To be impactful To lead with a servants heart To train Godly leaders Dedicated volunteers Protection from the tactics of Satan Efficient church support Thank you. We are stepping into a new season and a...

There is a grave type of urgency just as Noah must of felt in his day. 2 Peter 2:5 English Standard Version 5 if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; Noah a preacher of...

God sometimes uses a giant fish to take you where you don’t necessarily want to go but exactly where God needs you to be. Metaphorically the giant fish has come in many different forms within the testimonies of Christians. Peter was warned by Jesus of this very truth, John 21:18-19 English...

I'm researching the teachings of F.F. Bosworth and his book “Christ the Healer” He basically teaches that divine healing is a promise of God so God's answer to healing is always yes and amen to the promises of Christ. But I find this contradicting. Not that in Christ we do not see physical...

Unlike money, time is the most valuable thing we possess. Spend it wisely and understand the seasons. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 English Standard Version 3 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to...

Hope everyone is doing good. I have been good, just busy with trying to get a ministry up off the ground.

God designed marriage much like God designed the church. Men lead in the home as they submit to Christ. Men lead the church as they submit to Christ. Some teach that this is old fashion, tradition, a way of ancient culture, or misogynistic in nature. But the Bible doesn't give us any other...

XVII. I ask if there be two men, one of them of the very best kind; equitable, perfectly just, of exemplary faith: the other singular for his wickedness and audacity: and suppose the community in such an error, that the good man passes for a wicked and dishonest one; while the bad one has the...

👉Speak As God Commands👈 Paul was criticized for being a poor speaker and he testifies to this in, 2 Corinthians 10:9-10 English Standard Version 9 I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters. 10 For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is...