The Carrot And The Stick

If I want others to be motivated through kindness and encouragement, why not do the same thing to others? What about you, are you more likely to be motivated by the carrot or the stick?

Use Your Noggin

The problem with being so close minded is that nothing ever gets in.

What Does Love Have To Do With It

On a Friday a little more than one year back, five unelected officials overturned with finality thirty-one different state’s constitutional amendments in a highly controversial ruling that same sex marriage is a right guaranteed under the fourteenth amendment to the US Constitution.

Unclean

But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.” Acts 10:15 Read: 1Kings 14:1-15:24, Acts 10:1-23, Psalm 133:1-3, Proverbs 17:7-8 Relate: Who are the “unclean” ones for you? For me it’s Red Sox fans. No, stop laughing, I’m serious. If you want proof of the existence of evil in this…

The One Jesus Loved

Would I be willing to have my name completely removed from the picture? If total obedience means complete obscurity, am I willing to walk down that road?

“Lord, Where is Your Unfailing Love?”

It is in our praise we are brought into the presence of God. It is in our faith and acceptance of God’s love that we are drawn closer.

Me First

We all have a me first tendency that is so hard to flush out of our lives.

Demonstration of Power

One diminutive man showing love and respect while still not bending his will demonstrated the greatest manifestation of power seen in the twentieth century.