

Christ-Centered Christmas -- Day 4
READ: Mark 15:16-41 Santa lives at the North Pole...JESUS is everywhere. Santa rides in a sleigh...JESUS rides on the wind and walks on...


Christ-Centered Christmas -- Day 3
READ: Luke 4:14-30 When my son, Kyle, was young, he used to keep a “Christmas Countdown” calendar in his room. It was a green felt...


Christ-Centered Christmas -- Day 2
READ: Luke 2:1-20 During the Christmas season of 2002, there was a frequent commercial for a TV movie starring Jason Alexander called The...


Christ-Centered Christmas -- Day 1
NOTE: For the remainder of this month, this blog will be a bit different. Each day, we will present a devotional thought to help center...


Giving it All to Get the Best
It is so easy to try to seek fulfillment and satisfaction in what the world offers, but there is a better way. Jesus offers it to us....


Mark, You're Thankful for What?!?
"Though he slay me, yet will I hope in Him..." ~ Job 13:15 (NIV) As I look back on the nearly eleven full months of 2015, I realize that...


Are You Living for Now or Eternity?
I am a child of the 80s. I grew up in an era that considered a 25-inch picture-tube TV a “big screen.” I had a boom-box, top-loading VCR,...


Whose Will Are You Following?
Jesus and his disciples left Galilee and went up to the villages near Caesarea Philippi. As they were walking along, he asked them, “Who...


The Surrendered Life
Surrender to Christ... This is the last thing many of us want to do. Sure, we might be willing to surrender some things to Him. I mean,...


When Surrender is a Good Thing
Then he said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross daily, and...