15 Signs That A Church Is In Trouble
#1 – When excuses are made about the way things are instead of embracing a willingness to roll up the sleeves and fix the problem. #2 – When the church becomes content with merely receiving people that come rather than actually going out and finding them…in other words, they lose their passion for evangelism!

Freed To Visit Orphans
“To see an orphan is to be confronted with the reality that the world is not the way it’s supposed to be.” ~ Dan Cruver HT: Z   Posted in Culture Tagged: Orphans

Before You Pray
From Winfield Bevins: Every believer can have a dynamic personal prayer life. The Bible gives us the keys that we need to develop a powerful prayer life. Scripture is full of examples of men and women who walked with God and used prayer to impact their world, and you can do the same thing through prayer.

Create In Me A Clean Heart by Keith Green
This guy NEVER gets old. Keith Green consistently brings me back to the basics AND to the cross of Christ. I grew up listening to this song and still need to sing it more and more every day. Posted in Christian Life Tagged: Keith Green

The Humility of Parenting
Carson (5), Dalaina (1) Me (34!) & Ben (4) “Parenting exposes the progress of our sanctification. Before we ever teach our children the truth of who God is for us in Christ, we will be declaring our faith as we live it out before them. Our children are watching us, noticing our hypocrisies, lies, abuses, speech and conduct. Parenting is so hard and humbling because our family obs