What is beauty? How do you characterize beauty? The dictionary defines beauty as a quality present in a person or thing that provides intense pleasure or deep satisfaction of the mind. People characterize beauty by the temporary; based on outer beauty which in time may fade; based on the enhancements of the physical…

  (Lev. 19:11) After reading the first 19 versus of this chapter; I was reminded of how awesome it is to live under grace and not the law. The NT holds grace and the OT is the law for which we are no longer subject to its rituals; for if we were, all if not…

  1 Samuel 17:40-47 What is your relationship with GOD and what do you have that HE will work with? David was discounted by his father and brothers. He was put out in the field to tend the sheep and to be out of the sight of his family. The family of David had no…

  The barrenness that I can relate to because I have had the displeasure to witness this epidemic among our young people is the barrenness of the mind. Our greatest weapon of destruction towards all the ignorance and evil in this world is our ability to learn. I am hard wired to sit and speak…

    We spend too much time; especially us folks in the church debating about baptism. The scriptures make it clear regardless of the dictionary’s definition or the mannerisms in which church you attend. It is for such reasons as this that we have division among the saints. What we must do; is to become…

     I don’t know if the word balm is actually used anymore outside of the medical office. When I was growing up it was a word often heard and understood. There was the icky smell of the medicinal balm usually applied to the chest for colds. Such as mustard plasters; or good old Vick’s…

  All too often I think that when a person thinks about balance it’s often related to something mathematically. The counting of money; the measuring of something, a shelf for example. A table where you must fold something to stick beneath the leg so that it does not rock. When we hear balance which pertains…

    Another well known name is “I’ve fallen & I won’t get up”. What I want to shine a light on is old comfortable habits. The CHRISTian walk is not an easy walk to accomplish; however, it is a walk that we must perfect each and every day of our life. To do wrong…

    Who are you? Who will your unborn child be? These are questions that most people no longer ask. I remember when I was small; the adults would always ask the neighborhood children; “what they wanted to be when they grew up”? The boys would say policeman, fireman or like my daddy. The girls…

It’s an awful feeling to be ashamed of something you’ve done or said. It’s even worse to be ashamed of something that you had no control over. For example being abused of any type. Shame will create for us a prison in which we will live for many years when it has not been dealt…