Around Your Table

PROVERBS 17:1 Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife. STRIFE: Angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues; conflict. synonyms: conflict, friction, discord, disagreement, dissension, dispute, argument, quarreling, wrangling, bickering, controversy. Brothers and sisters, the expression of a dry morsel means “very little,” especially in comparison to feasting.…

Did You Learn From Your Past?

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done and there is nothing new under the sum. (10) is there anything of which it may be said, “See, this is new”? It has already been in ancient times before. Brothers and sisters, if it appears…

Watch Out For Distractions

The following post was written by one of my former coworkers, who was kind enough to allow me to include this message on my site. I just wanted to speak on life’s distractions, these events that occur to cause us to lose focus on God, and the things that we know we should be getting…

Hate Sin, Love People

Psalm 97:10 Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. Hate is acceptable to God only when it is directed towards evil. We should love God and hate evil. We should love people and hate evil things and evil…

Train Up A Child

This sermon was preached by a Pastor friend of mine, during a Youth Conference, at my church, last summer. Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Notice that this verse does not say to “teach”, but instead it instructs…

The Dangers of Pride

“Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?” 1 Samuel 25:11 (King James Version) Anytime you have that many I’s and my’s in one sentence, pride is in the mix. We are…

Don’t Give Up, Don’t Ever Give Up

Friends, are you going through one of those times when it seems every attempt to resolve a problem is met with a new difficulty? You thank the Lord at night that it’s taken care of but awake to find that something else has gone wrong and the problem remains. As I was reading the gospel…

Karen And Christy

While listening in on a recent conference call with some friends, I had an opportunity to hear the following testimony from one of my friends’ fiancée, Karen, who works at a pharmaceutical company in our town. Karen explained that when she started with the company, five years ago, she immediately struck up a friendship with…

Wake Up, Church: Jesus Is Coming

The Bible says Christ will come like a thief in the night, when you least expect him. It will happen in the twinkling of an eye, with the sound of a trumpet. We must be ready at all times.” Are You Ready? The cry “Jesus is coming!” is seldom heard in God’s house today. Very…

When Faith Is Tested

James 1:1-8;22 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work,…