Are you ready for the new year? Are you ready for all the Lord is going to do in 2022?There are lots of scriptures that prepare us spiritually, emotionally, and mentally for stepping into the future. Our tendency is to carry the past with us. When we talk about the past, there is ‘good past’ and ‘bad past’.Good past is the spiritual inheritance we have received from God, his Word, and the church. ...

It's Christmas week, that time of year we tend to be scurrying about preparing to celebrate Christ's birth with friends, family, and loved ones. For the second year in a row I'm filled with a tinge of sadness that our church will not be gathered together on Christmas Eve.We continue to live in a less than ideal global situation, but this in itself should give us great courage. Because it was into ...

I have a friend over there in those United States who really annoys me. When I ask him, ‘How are you doing?’, he responds with, ‘I’m blessed!’. It’s frustrating because when I ask how he’s doing, I really want to know! Now, Americans use that question How ya doin’? as a greeting, kind of like ‘Hi!’. And so it’s most often not a request for a 15-minute download on the state of your soul. But when I...