Recently, I was able to take a few days and head to Colorado to enjoy some snowboarding with friends. I didn't realize how much I needed the break. Sometimes we get so consumed in our own worlds, whether it is family, work, ministry, etc., that we forget to reflect on the majesty God has set around us. For me, it was great to just be quiet and look. Check out these verses and enjoy ...

I don't know about you, but lately it seems that the spiritual warfare surrounding marriages has stepped up a notch. In the last month, I have seen several couples close to me experience intense turmoil. Being emotionally and spiritually drained through walking friends and family through some tough situations, I have found them and myself... weary. In Ephesians chapter 5, Paul dire ...

1 Peter 1:5-7 - 5) who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6) In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, 7) so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to re ...

“What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an ...

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my bod ...

I saw this story circulating on the interwebs and thought it would be great for our Learn section! "A pastor transformed himself into a homeless person and went to the church that he was to be introduced as the head pastor at that morning. He walked around his soon to be church for 30 minutes while it was filling with people for service. Only 3 people said hello to him, most looked t ...