WHEN WE HAVE PROBLEMS, as an individual or as a church, God wants to do one or more things with us. He may want to… …direct us: God uses problems to steer us in a new direction or in a new way of doing things. Think of Moses and the problem he had as the only judge in Israel. It must have been overwhelming and exhausting. But it made Moses willing to do things in a new way and God gave Moses that new direction through his father-in-law. Moses created a new court system w

IN EPHESIANS 5:21 PAUL WRITES, “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ” and then goes on to apply this to marriage. Our culture assumes that we enter marriage, primarily, to receive love but the Bible does not. Its perspective is that we should go into marriage for what we can give the other person. When two people put each other first a marriage can sing. We should not forget, however, that the original command is, “Submit to one another…”, that is, submit to o

When I was still a teenager myself I asked a group of teens I was teaching to each write on a slip of paper how much time they spent a week reading their Bibles. They were not to sign the slips but I would take their slips and tell them what, together, they were averaging. Five of them wrote down “0”, one wrote “5” and another wrote “30”. Their average as a group was 35 minutes a week or less than a minute a day per student. For some reason we struggle to find time to read