Are you all in?

 

On a drizzly morning we were getting ready to leave the Oregon coast and head home. I got out a rag and started wiping off some of the grime that was on our vehicle. There was no point in trying to dry it as a light mist was still coming down. I immediately I recalled a car wash that our family and some students put on to raise money for a young man who had cancer. Though it was cloudy on the day of the carwash we joined hands and prayed for the sun to come out and for many people to bring their cars to be washed. When we said amen, it started drizzling. I was devasted; how can you have a successful car wash

Where are you looking?

 

While on vacation my wife and I were walking our dogs on the beach. A few minutes into our walk we switched dogs. She has been walking her dog, Pepper, every morning for quite a few years and as I was walking her dog all Pepper did was stare at her. I want to be like my wife’s dog and keep looking at the Master.

The first part of Hebrews 12:2 states, “looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.”  Our faith started in Jesus and it will be perfected and finished in Jesus, but it is the in between of those two points that we need to be careful where we are looking. I think at some point we all take our eyes off of Jesus and start placing our gaze upon the

How much longer?

 

I had just finished driving 15 hours getting us to our destination. I thought how much longer until we get there although I did know the answer. I then thought about when our kids were little and traveling with us, they would ask the question that I was thinking. Are we there yet, how much longer, I want to be there now and on and on the questions came? Are you ever thinking similar questions about the return of Jesus?  Jesus, how much longer until you come back and get us, are we going to be home soon, or I just want to go home, why am I still here?

Scripture gives us some basic guidelines about the end times, but in certain points in our

From independence to dependence

 

July 4^th is a day of celebration for the United States of America. This is the day that Americans remember their independence from Great Britain.  It is a federal holiday commemorating when the original 13 colonies became an independent nation, no longer under the control of Great Britain.

Before placing our faith in Jesus, we lived and did whatever we wanted to, because God was in none of our thoughts. We didn’t have a day of independence, but rather we had a life lived independently from God. Perhaps there was some inkling of judgment, but that