Daily Devotional

From the book: “Becoming Emotionally Whole” By Charles Stanley  KEY #3: Sucure God’s Healing for Your Faults All people have something about themselves–their personalities, their backgrounds, their abilities–that they don’t like. Everyone has a tendency to concentrate more on the flaws and points of weakness than on the strengths. Some things in life are givens. For [...]

From the book: “Becoming Emotionally Whole” By Charles Stanley  There are at least seven major aspects of wholeness involved in seeking God’s best for your emotional life. You do not need to take them in sequence. Rather, they are like having a ring of keys–all of which need to be inserted and turned simultaneously. These keys [...]

By: Drew Amber Gorton   How many people would you say you know?  About how many do you think you interact with in a day?  And how many of these people have you shown your love of Christ too?  If you think about it, you may be surprised about how low that number may be. [...]

The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard  ”For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.  ”About the third hour he went out [...]

 By: Drew Amber Gorton What do you promise yourself?  I decided that I needed to identify the things I wanted to remember and live by each day, so I constructed the following thoughts to remind myself what I want to be all about.  I challenge you to make your own.  Print it out.  Hang it [...]

The Rich Young Man  Now a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”  ”Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, obey the commandments.”  ”Which ones?” the man [...]

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the [...]

By: Drew Amber Gorton   I went to praise and worship yesterday (it is every Tuesday at 6pm, at the church, please come).  My friend called me and asked me if I was going to go.  I wasn’t planning on going, so I told her I would see if I would be able to “make [...]

 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every [...]

By: Drew Amber Gorton You have probably heard it before: “Let go and let God.”  It is funny how we can hear something and think, “Woah, that is soooo true,” or, “that is a really good idea,” and then we forget about it.  Well, how about putting something into practice for once?  Much of our [...]