God is for us. He is not against us. Repenting is not about carrying the weight of guilt and shame from your past, it’s about giving it to Jesus once and for all and moving forward. He has paid for our sins in full, not in part. “Don’t carry around bricks from your past, you’ll …
Don’t spend too much time turning your head in order to see the mistakes and shortcomings of your past. This particular activity slows you down and causes you to veer off the path. Learn from your mistakes but don’t dwell on them. “Don’t look behind you, somebody might be gaining on you.”(Satchel Paige) “…And let …
NEED HELP! During the August floods in eastern Kentucky, many lives were lost, homes washed away, and thousands lost every earthly possession. We can’t do all things for all people, but there is a group of people we can help…baseball players and coaches. I’ve talked to some high school and youth league coaches who lost …
Our Bible Study this morning was about loving God and loving people. To be very transparent, this is not always easy for me. But, if we know we are going to be around a person that’s hard to love, shouldn’t we ask Jesus, in prayer, to help us love the person as He would? That’s …
Have you ever had a good idea but you never took the first step to follow through. I have. We need to remember that sometimes God inspires us with ideas. We should always ask God if these ideas are a part of His plan for us. There is no need to ask God to guide …
It’s been many years since a coach or manager visited me on the mound to take the ball from my hand and then give it to another pitcher…to clean up my mess, of course. Most of the time, the manager wouldn’t make eye contact with me, mumble a few words and I would leave the …
The more we read God’s Word, the more consistent we are in our lives and in our walk with Christ. We are better prepared to face challenges and the occasional curveball that comes our way. “Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God …
Some days are blessings and other days are lessons. So, let’s be thankful today. “God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent …
Someone once said, building relationships is about being interested instead of being interesting. “The greatest compliment ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer.” (Henry David Thoreau) “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your …
When God’s children suffer, feel rejected or think their prayers aren’t being answered, know that joy is always on the other side of pain. Without Christ, the human heart is homeless. Jesus said, “Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn …