Crown Financial Ministries is going to host a simulcast in various churches nationwide this Saturday.   The website is  at : http://www.ccnonline.net/moneymaplive/index.htm.  (Sorry, I don't know how to make it a direct link ( Read more... )

"Inherent in the stronghold of self-help is the misbelief that I can change myself.  It's a commitment to the old cliche`, 'If it is going to be it is up to me.' In Christianity, it's nothing but bootstrap religion and positive legalism. It's just another version of 'God helps those who help themselves.' For some strange reason, most people believe ( Read more... )

If God has called you to be really like Jesus, he will draw you into a life of crucifixion and humility, and put upon you such demands of obedience, that you will not be able to measure yourself by other Christians; and in many ways He will seem to let other good people do things which he will never let you do ( Read more... )

Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. (Acts 20:28 ( Read more... )

Today and tomorrow Titus will be at the pinnacle of his Marine boot camp training, the Crucible. He has asked prayer that he keeps his "head on straight" because it is intense, sleep deprived, combat-like, and emotional. They'll have the MREs and that caffeine that will keep them wired. His group includes two guys that will need to be helped a ( Read more... )

I found this entry on excellence in Chuck Swindoll's Letters to the GraduateMediocrity is fast becoming the by-word of our times. Every imaginable excuse is now used to make it acceptable, hopefully preferrred....Incompetence and status quo averages are held up as all we can now expect, and the tragedy is that more and more people have virtually ( Read more... )

Don't Settleby Linda Werner ( Read more... )

Earlier I heard David Jeremiah talk on Solomon's observation that "the day of death is better than the day of one's birth" (Ecc 7:1). The meaning is not that being in heaven is better than being on earth, but that at the end of life, one will be remembering back and seeing a good life 's results which is better than the uncertainty of life from ( Read more... )

pg. ix "Great word, enthusiasm. Its Greek origin is entheos, "God in." It is the ability to see God in a situation that makes it exciting. Do you know that God is watching your life? Do you realize that? Something happens to us when we become convinced that God our heavenly Father is aware of and involved in our activities and is, in fact, ( Read more... )