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Accountability

9 Two are better than one, Because they have a good reward for their labor. 10 For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, For he has no one to help him up. 11 Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; But how can one be warm alone? 12 Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

What is accountability? Dictionaries define it as “a state of being liable or (more…)

Radical? Or Normal?
The book of Acts provides us with the historical account of the early church and the growth and movement of Christianity from its beginnings in Jerusalem. As I examine the pattern of the early church though I’m afraid our American Christianity fails to resemble the radical lifestyle that was being exhibited by our early Christian brothers and sisters. But was their lifestyle really radical? Passages like Acts 2:42-47 (more…)

1 John 3:8b 1 John 3:9 “Those who have been born into God’s family do not make a practice of sinning, because God’s life is in them. So they can’t keep on sinning, because they are children of God.” (NLT)

Thanks to Jim over at The Edge! (#149) (more…)

Have you ever met a judgmental Christian?

I know I’ve met my share of them, and I’ve just got to tell you that these kinds of people make me sick! I don’t want to be around them. I don’t want to be near them. I don’t want to have anything to do with them.

And yet, sometimes, when I look into the mirror, and honestly, more often than I care to admit, I see someone who looks a lot like a judgmental person. I see someone who sometimes looks for the faults in others, who occasionally assumes the worst about people, and who has a tendency to view himself as (more…)

She could see what was coming and there was nothing she could do to stop it. And so, she did the only thing she could do; she took the alabaster flask of costly oil from its place on the shelf and, without concern for what other’s may say or think, she walked into the house, sat down at the feet of the (more…)

Luke 6:28
“Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which spitefully use you.”

I have been employed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons for 20 years now and have been involved in prison ministries for about 15 of those years. I have found that the days when I feel least like ministering are the days that bear the most spiritual fruit. On June 20, 2008, the Bureau (more…)

Romans 8:5,6 “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”

Thanks to Jim over at The Edge! (#248)

Originally published on June 17th, 2008