Category Archives: Much Ado about Everything

In normal life your celebrations don’t usually intersect with your sad times and your sad times aren’t typically your times of celebration. When you are sad, you don’t really feel like celebrating anything much. The opposite is also true, when … Continue reading →

Do you ever think that perhaps you’re at the wrong address? Did you ever wonder or wish that the things you deal with everyday weren’t meant for you? Did you ever look at the blessing of someone else and wish … Continue reading →

It’s hard to admit your need of help. It’s hard to admit that there are things you do not know and do not understand. It’s hard to admit that there are things that you cannot do. It’s hard to reach … Continue reading →

courtesy of Refocusing Our Eyes blog What can render the state of a person worse than to be an enemy of God, Jesus Christ, and the power of godliness; and yet to think he is holy and a good Christian? … Continue reading →

Are you as upset with Joanie as Jane was? Could the few short months away from home have totally ruined a friendship that had taken a lifetime to develop? It seems unlikely, and it was. Joanie returned to the church … Continue reading →

Over the years I’ve told this story, maybe dozens of times. Or some version of it. It didn’t originate with me, but I don’t remember where I first heard it. That really doesn’t matter. What matters is the point of … Continue reading →

The signs of a flesh-pleaser or sensualist are these: 1. When a man in his desire to please his appetite, does not do it with a view to a higher end, that is to say to the preparing himself for … Continue reading →

“Now, there are sundry ways whereby glory redounds to God by believers’ humble walking with him:— (1.) It gives him the glory of the doctrine of grace. (2.) It gives him the glory of the power of his grace. (3.) It gives him … Continue reading →

courtesy of Refocusing Our Eyes.com In ministry you will be both called to wait and also find waiting personally and corporately difficult. So it is important to recognize that there are lots of good reasons why waiting is not merely … Continue reading →

If God Himself be for me, I may a host defy, For when I pray, before me my foes confounded fly. If Christ, the Head, befriend me, if God be my support, The mischief they intend me shall quickly come … Continue reading →