Alright…we’ve all heard the song this year. Ms. Swift is letting us know she’s not about to let other people’s thoughts, talk, or actions adversely affect her attitude and life. While some folks find the tune merely catchy and the lyrics cute, there are...
Few things make people more scared than having to face hard questions about their faith. One of the reasons this is the case is that we are told by the world around us that faith is personal. Thus, when others ask us about our faith or challenge our faith we become flustered because we feel...
Ladies: men can be the worst. “Everything is permissible. Not everything is beneficial” (1 Corinthians 6:12). It is not beneficial when women date boys who are a waste of their time at best and will damage their souls at worst. Below are five types of guys that you, ladies...
Nearly three million Americans are Muslims, and many of them will be fasting from sun up to sun down from June 18 – July 17, 2015. Because the dates of Ramadan are based on a lunar calendar, they vary each year, coming a few days sooner than the previous year’s observance. Not all...
In the Body of Christ, we are called to rejoice with those who rejoice and suffer with those who are suffering. Rejoicing is easy…suffering is hard. (Sorry about being so obvious.) But, when given the opportunity to suffer with someone, we often blow it. We feel the pressure of having to...
As a young believer, one of the thinkers I most admired was Francis Schaeffer. His books had a great influence on me, and I was especially impressed by his wife’s book, L’abri, in which she told how they opened their home and study center in the Swiss Alps to one and all, expected or...
Yesterday, Pastor John Heston accepted a position at Valley View Bible Church that will begin in June. John will be a huge blessing to the people of Valley View. For us who are a part of Grace, we can be excited for his new season of life, but simultaneously be saddened because we...
I have been a youth pastor for a handful of years. One of the problems that I regularly see is that parent’s simply don’t know how to speak with their students in a meaningful and caring way and thus cause their middle schooler or high schooler to feel misunderstood and...
“Easter is not about bad people becoming good people. Easter is about dead people coming alive!” – Pastor Des Wadsworth Yesterday we had the privilege of having Des Wadsworth, our future Lead Pastor, as our guest speaker. Des preached through Luke 23, we sang songs...
Sometime in early 2005, I was sitting in my office when the phone rang. I carelessly picked it up, expecting it to be a salespitch or robo-call, but it was Wellington Mutiso calling from Kenya! Instantly, I was fully attentive, but his words brought me up short. He said...