Tag: Love People
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Pointing Fingers
There are a few ironies in our society today. We spend, on average $30,000 each year for four years to get a college education and most college graduates (53% in 2012) are unemployed or underemployed.1 We spend four years in college and ten years paying off the college experience. We demand something that we call…
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Childish Hatred Mistaken For Defending What Is Right?
An old man poked his head up over the fence on a Saturday morning to observe his neighbor’s yard. “What kind of man,” he thought to himself, “lets his yard get so filthy?” He observed toy trucks and baseball gloves and the grass was taller than it should have been; it would come up to…
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Does God promise success?
If you are like me, then church growth matters to you. The success of the church and its ministries matters and my heart is so burdened for the people around us. I know that there are plenty of resources to help with church growth and outreach, but I was curious about just how many books…
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The Sin Binge: what we may not realize about the nature of sin
What does sin do to us? In western culture today, people seem to not worry about the negative effects of sin as an action. We accept our imperfection and we move on without even striving to be better. Instead we embrace that imperfection, making statements like: “I’m just gonna do me!” “Don’t judge me!”…
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Does Life Have Meaning at All?
What if I were to tell you that everything in this life is absolutely meaningless? Do you ever feel, as I do, that no matter what you do or how you live that it is not going to make a difference or that it does not even matter at all? King Solomon, debatably one of…