"Hey, I know that boy. I've known him my whole life. Who does he think he is?" I confess, it hurt a bit. You see, I was preaching one of my first "sermons" and some "friend" of the family who had, actually, known me and my parents since I was a baby, was a bit…
George Bernard Shaw once said "Youth is wasted on the young." What he meant by that is when we have great strength and potential, we are still too immature to take full advantage of our possibilities, and when we gain the wisdom of the years, we tend to have less energy and even less time…
My dear bride has a hard and fast rule for my two girls: "Wash your hands!" You see, my wife is a trained elementary school educator and part of that training has to do with hygiene. Teaching children to wash their hands before they eat, after they play, and after their potty breaks is all…
The great 20th century thinker, Aldous Huxley, once said "Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
Funny, now that I think about it, he's right. Children have the power of a clarity of thought that is absolute and simple. No wonder…
I know it is a bit "old fashioned" and it may be hard for those of this generation to understand, but the timeless message of the Faith is that we are called to battle and tame the passions! So, then, what are the passions? Some may say "I thought being a passionate person was a…
The late Fulton Sheen once said "Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."
And there is simply no other vice that destroys both parties as completely as jealousy. It cankers the soul of the one who experiences it and it reduces the object of jealousy to a forever unreachable "thing." No wonder jealousy and envy…
What a great day shooting the Demo video for the Journey to Fullness Video Project here at Faith Encouraged Ministries. The studio audience and the fantastic crew at Comprehensive Media were wonderful to work with and really understand the vision for this project!
Will you help us? Our goal is to raise the funds necessary to…
He looked at me right in the face and said the words I will never forget: "When you're ready to 'sell all you have' to have this faith, then, and only then will you be ready!"
Whoa, wait a minute, let's talk about this! Everything? Yep, everything.
It was a turning point in my own spiritual journey…
OK, let me confess something; I am not very talented when it comes to growing things. In fact, everytime I've tried to plant and tend a garden, it has ended up either overrun by weeds or eaten by critters or over watered or under watered! I just don't have the proverbial "green thumb."
I don't know…