Stephen

Stephen

A man full of POWER and GRACE. And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those...
Gossip

Gossip

Pride and Destruction So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body,...
Pride: The Oldest Sin

Pride: The Oldest Sin

One man in scripture stands out who was self-righteous to the point of self-destruction: King Saul. Pride deceives us into thinking we can live life on our own. The farther King Saul removed himself from God, the more independent he became.    You hypocrite, first...
The Cursed Fig Tree

The Cursed Fig Tree

Are you producing fruit? On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for...
The Good Ole Days

The Good Ole Days

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. – Philippians 1:6 (ESV)   Daily living life can be much like driving a car. We can either look in the rearview mirror or through the windshield....