I love what my friend Mike shared today at church today….it a was certainly a “gem” of wisdom. He was sharing during teh offering meditation his list of New Years resolutions. One was not answer his cell phone anymore while he is in the bathroom. But the last one, I believe was tru

In a few days the greatest event that has rocked this world occurred–Jesus, our Savior and Messiah, was born. Of special note today, is that of all the people that announced His birth, a birth that had been anticipated for literally centuries and centuries, it was a group of shepherds that wer

Joseph and Mary are arriving in Bethlehem–Mary very expectant and ready to have a child any day. As everything would have it, they came to Bethlehem because the Roman government forced them to travel to their home city to be counted in the census and to pay their taxes (I’m so glad we ca

There was a time in my life that I found it very hard to put into perspective what I was going through, the circumstances I was in and much of what I had been taught in church about God. In fact, my skewed view of God was actually “religion” without the relationship. As I started studyin

There are times that we have lost trust in someone we love or respect and times that we ourselves have done things to lose the trust of someone we care for. Broken trust can scar us and can scar others, deeply–all the more important it is to trust in God. We must understand that trust is not s

Trust is something that many of us have issues with: trusting other people, trusting ourselves sometimes, & ultimately trusting God. Trust is a shared belief that we can depend on each other to achieve a common purpose. Trust is something that is present in “degrees” (a little trust