What a clever idea!

Yes, Christmas cards. This is coming early so that you can
get ready to include an important address to your list.
Want to have some fun this CHRISTMAS? Send the ACLU
a CHRISTMAS CARD this year.
As they are working so very hard to get rid of the
CHRISTMAS part of this holiday, we [...]

Here is an article I wrote for the Lexington edition of the Examiner entitled Just Listen. It talks about how there are a lot of talkers, but not many who are good listeners.
Have you ever needed to say something, explain something, or unburden yourself but you were interrupted and just weren’t listened to? It’s very [...]

This is by Rick Warren and how true. How many people just “SAY” they love you, but DO NOTHING to show it?
Love Is an Action
by Rick Warren

In our Devotionals series, Pastor Rick Warren discusses the Bible passages that inspire him the most. Today’s Devotional is based on this passage:

“Dear children, let us stop just saying [...]

I asked God to take away
My habit.

God said, No.

It is not for me to take away,
But for you to give it up.

I asked God to make my handicapped child whole.
God said, No.
His spirit is whole, his body is only temporary.
I asked God to grant me patience.

God said, No. Patience is a byproduct [...]

Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given in Kansas at
the opening session of their Senate. It seems prayer still upsets
some people.. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new
session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual
generalities, but  instead this is  what they heard…

Heavenly Father, [...]

by Rick Warren
Continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. Philippians 2:12-13 (NIV)
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Once you decide to get serious about becoming like Christ, you must begin to act in new ways. You’ll need [...]

His name is Bill. He has wild hair, wears a T-shirt with holes

in it, jeans, and no shoes. This was literally his wardrobe for his

entire four years [...]

I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may also be.
-John 14:2-3

Why art thou downcast, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted in me? Hope thou in God: for [...]

For the first day of this new year, remember that God gives new beginnings. Sometimes things don’t go the way we want. Sometimes we have painful losses. Sometimes relationships don’t work out the way we want.
But there is hope as long as we have God and ask God. God gives us new beginnings. God can [...]

Don’t give up!
It’s so easy to give up and it can be extremely difficult to not give up. A lot of people give up when the going gets rough.
Sometimes prayers aren’t answered immediately or the way we want them to-but don’t give up!
Sometimes people aren’t the way we want them to be- don’t give [...]