The Importance of Community…

One of the most thorough research projects on relationships is called the Alameda County Study. Headed by a Harvard social scientist, it tracked the lives of 7,000 people over nine years. Researchers found that the most isolated people were three times more likely to die than those with strong relational connections. People who had bad …

Happy Mother’s Day!

I thought, this Sunday being mother’s day, I would feature a few other great mothers. (These are in no particular order) First: It is the text message we all want to get, and laugh at. It is the main reason we bother to leave our husbands with the kids. Read Holly’s story about leaving her …

Hollywood Holiness?

I just thought this was interesting, making our world seem a little more hopeful than most believe… I believe God is doing something in Hollywood that mainstream media does not bother to tell us about. Famous actors and actresses are seeking out truth and not only finding it but their lives and movies are changing …

We Make It Complicated; He Makes It Simple

If you don’t know what you’re doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You’ll get His help, and won’t be condescended to when you ask for it … But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God – the free life!- even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks …

How Powerful Are Our Thoughts?

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience …

When Science and Religion Agree!

God delights in concealing things; scientists delight in discovering things. Proverbs 25:2 The Message I was sent this article yesterday. It never ceases to amaze me that while science seeks to disprove a creator, they continuously confirm His existence… …The kids whose parents regularly attended religious services—especially when both parents did so frequently—and talked with …