April 20 Ephesians 5:12Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them.  Naturally when you see something bad or unpleasant whether from within yourself or from a friend or a loved one the first instinct it to try your best to hide it. Rather than speaking out and exposing certain things when we see it we rather cover it up. The sad reality is that many times when we try to cover these things up we do so by digging ourselves into bigger holes because

April 17 Judges 7:7The Lord told Gideon, “With these 300 men I will rescue you and give you victory over the Midianites.  Send all the others home.” As Christians one of the main things we must always be very cognizant about is the Sovereignty, the Wisdom, Power, Might, and all the attributes of the Lord. I think it’s save to say sometimes we forget who God is. We sometimes get into our own heads and utilizing our very limited understanding we make judgments and decisions based on what we think

April 14 Mark 13:31Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear.  As humans one of the elements in this life that we hold so dearly to is words. Whether positive or negative, we often take hold of the words others throw at us and keep it in our hearts for a life times. There are many of us who are hurting and dying simply because of the words someone spoke to us. On the other hand there are people who are thriving and living successfully simply because of

April 11 Romans9:31But the people of Israel, who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law, never succeeded.  As Christians, mostly those of us who are young we focus so much of our time and our energy on in trying to stay out of the traps and the reach of sin. The sad part of it all, is most of us focus so much on not falling into sin that all we do is fall into in. Some of us believe that the more we work

April 10 1 Peter 3:18“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.” Remember that on a day like this someone gave up their life for you. On a day like this someone sacrificed their Son so that you may have life and have it more abundantly. On a day like this the savior went into the grave. He went in carrying all your sins and the sins