Devotions

Here's our question for today: what does it really mean to "be a man?" The University of Manitoba conducted a study on what messages advertisers send about what it means to be a man. They found that the majority of advertisements equate manhood to one or more of the...

Romans 12:12 New International Version (NIV) 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. What are your hopes and your dreams in life? Do you pursue them? Do you chase after them? All of these questions have been said. It is important that we keep...

Meet for Breakfast Once a Month This Summer The Vital Men small groups will finish in April. We are asking that each location consider getting together once a month for breakfast or coffee through the summer to stay in touch. Keep watching our vitalministries.org web...

Luke 16:10-12 (NASB) "He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much. 11 Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the...

Monday morning, I checked the radar to see where the snow was and it all looked like it was leaving Iowa and heading through Wisconsin.  Then I sent a message to some friends North of Appleton and asked how things were up there and got the reply ‘everything is closed’...

A friend of mine recently got robbed.  He owns a business that sells used items on ebay.  He was on vacation when he gets a text from his assistant.  Needless to say enjoying the vacation was hard to enjoy!  When he got home and assessed what was stolen it was over...

I’ve learned that I need to have a compelling reason to do something difficult, or else I’m unlikely to do it very long. I studied Spanish in school, but I really saw little point to it. It was difficult learning those gnarly conjugation rules and scores of vocab, and...