The Vow: The vow of pursuit. Introduction: It is a common story: boy and girl fall in love and get married. The husband and wife work together to build their family. Soon one, two and maybe even three kids join the family. The husband is busy making a living to support his family. The…
The Vow: The vow of priority. Introduction: “Priority” is a very commonly used word today. Our society constantly becomes more frenetic, more frantic, more disjointed, disconnected, more mobile, and more involved. As life speeds up and becomes literally engulfed in so many different things, the word “priority” seems to be the solution to sorting…
Divine Direction: Faith To Start Introduction: The Bible is replete with stories of God doing amazing things through some pretty unamazing people. He chose an 80-year-old shepherd and made him into a Moses. He picked out a timid teenager and made a Jeremiah. All these people weren’t “right” for the job, yet when God called…
Divine Direction: Trust The Process Introduction: We make our decisions. Our decisions make us. Who we are today is a result of the decisions that we’ve made in the past. The decisions we make today will determine the story that we’ll tell tomorrow. The challenge is to make good decisions, a challenge heightened by the…
Divine Direction: Wisdom To Discern Introduction: When it comes to sorting out the complexities of life, only wisdom can reveal the best path. Let’s face it – we’ve all made some pretty dumb decisions in our lives. For most of us, there are chapters in the past we would like to rewrite. There’s money we…