We live in a society that promotes a ‘get it now’ mindset when it comes to satisfying our carnal desires. Eat as much as you want at our 50’ buffet, Buy now – pay later, use this and the women will swarm around you like flies, do this and you will get rich with...
Super Bowl Vision
It is Super Bowl week. Every year 32 teams fight for one goal. Win the Super Bowl! The General Managers choose coaches. Coaches choose assistant coaches. Together the draft, trade, and build a team worthy of the Super Bowl. They are clear in where they are going...
Trust over Fear
One of the highlights every year I was a youth pastor was our Winter Retreat. We would load up two buses of teenagers and head for an amazing camp in northern Wisconsin for the weekend. In addition to ridiculous amounts of winter fun we also had very deep and powerful...
Fighting Discouragement
Nehemiah 4:10New International Version (NIV) 10 Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, “The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall.” Discouragement is an easy trap this time of year. For us in the midwest, the...
Vital Ministries News
Matthew 15:18-19New International Version (NIV) 18 But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. Next Week...
I Don’t Know?!
Proverbs 19:20 (NKJV) Listen to counsel and receive instruction, That you may be wise in your latter days. Be assured, for the sake of illustrating today's commentary and not of self promotion, I tell you, I am an accomplished and confident archer and bow hunter....
Childlike
There are probably lots of things that remind us of our childhood. Maybe you watch something that reminds you of an event, or you do some of the same things with your own children that you did as a child. We may become nostalgic for the time we grew up when we see...
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